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I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India. — Damon Galgut

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise. — Damon Galgut

He had it now, he thought. What he had been searching for till now: the heart of it, the central, engendering event. — Damon Galgut

The only defence against raw, naked feeling was reason. Understanding made sadness easier to bear. — Damon Galgut

The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local. — Damon Galgut

To be honest and to be fair were not always the same thing. — Damon Galgut

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

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

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

Why did people believe it was only the flesh that binds? — Damon Galgut

While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme. — Damon Galgut

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

South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter. — Damon Galgut

It's been unsettling to discover that every form of narrative, even one that purports to tell the truth, is a kind of lying. — Damon Galgut

Forgive me my friend, I tried to hold on, but you fell, you fell — Damon Galgut

Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women. — Damon Galgut

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit. — Damon Galgut

All have their foolishness, and this is mine. — Damon Galgut

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight. — Damon Galgut

Goldie was a believer in the imperial project, which is to say, in the civilising power of social progress. — Damon Galgut

I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa. — Damon Galgut

Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory. — Damon Galgut

What did love mean if it was doled out so carelessly, with no thought of consequence? — Damon Galgut

A silence followed, while the two men contemplated dying for love. — Damon Galgut

A mixture of rapture and cowardice. No action, but all that quivering! — Damon Galgut

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me. — Damon Galgut

I'm not designed to interact with society. — Damon Galgut

I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out. — Damon Galgut

I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings. — Damon Galgut

There were only certain intimacies one could hope to survive. — Damon Galgut

Generally, writers have very uninteresting lives. — Damon Galgut

Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland. — Damon Galgut

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

Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it. — Damon Galgut

He feared at certain moments that the only new knowledge he would take away from this country was learning how to swim and use the telephone. — Damon Galgut

Of what earthly use were novels? How did they help anybody? — Damon Galgut

Other people might have to confess their sins, but he, Morgan, could only confess their absence. — Damon Galgut

Past a certain point, maybe, a person's character defines itself and stays fixed in your mind. — Damon Galgut

Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye. — Damon Galgut

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold. — Damon Galgut

Race and class were a kind of destiny; very little could dent them. Morgan himself had been decanted back into the vessel that had made him. — Damon Galgut

There are many monsters, oh, many! — Damon Galgut

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

Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing. — Damon Galgut

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

My dear, he talked of peering into catamites' anuses, if you can conceive of anything more wonderful. — Damon Galgut

Even in one's most physical moments, the real craving was for love. — Damon Galgut

I blame it on the heat. And Morgan had gone to India, and the heat had not undone him. He had remained respectable. — Damon Galgut

The funny thing is, I don't care too much. You think you love something so badly, but when it's gone you find out you don't care so much. — Damon Galgut