I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
From Michael Ondaatje
In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.
It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled.
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
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