I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
Michael OndaatjeShe is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I donโt know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.
Michael OndaatjeBut we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.
Michael Ondaatje