i12bent:

Michael Ondaatje, important Sri Lanka-born Canadian novelist and poet, is 66 today. His main success was The English Patient, 1992…

“A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.”

“As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.”

“It’s why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.”

And the postcolonial state:

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