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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

~Damon Galgut

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Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Cliche Down Easy Finding Freedom Future Imaginative Mind More Nothing Past Perhaps Sense Than Though Way Weight Your

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I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Beach Because Centre Ended First Go Hoping India Interest Out Up While Work Work Out Writing Yoga

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I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind 'A Passage to India' is especially interesting.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: About Been Behind Book Creating Goes India Interesting Novel Passage Story Wanting Write

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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

~Damon Galgut

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There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Lot Moments Writing

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I like to believe that if you pay close attention to the sentences as they unfold, they will draw you in rather than pushing you away.

~Damon Galgut

Topics: Attention Away Believe Close Draw Like Pay Pushing Rather Sentences Than Unfold Will You

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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

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'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel.

~Damon Galgut

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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.

~Damon Galgut

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Playwright

Born: November 12th, 1963

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