"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."

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"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."

Explore more quotes by Michael Ondaatje

"When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world."

World, Writing

"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."

War, Chance, Fate, Rights

"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."

Mind,

"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."

Darkness, Discovery, Writing

"It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country."

Home, Country, State

"Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again."

Creativity, Idea, Now, Right, Will

"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."

Time, Trust, First, Order

"The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."

Past,

"Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."

Time, Truth, Wrong

"You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else."

Opinion, Want

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"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Perception, Saying

"All of life is a foreign country."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Perception, Life, Country

"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

Perception, Limitations, Mind

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

Mark Twain, American Author

Perception, Fools, Right, Trouble

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Perception, Opinion, Public, Publicopinion

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

Barack Obama, American President

Perception, Wealth

"Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Perception, Age, Lie, Dignity

"I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks."

Barack Obama, American President

Perception, Car, Bed, Driving, Girls

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Perception, Man

"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Perception, Feeling, Giving, Order, Tension