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Damon Galgut
South African Playwright
Born: Nov 12, 1963
About Good Me Society Writing You
Related authors: Arthur Miller Graham Greene James M. Barrie Lynn Nottage Moliere Noel Coward Samuel Beckett W. Somerset Maugham
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye. Damon Galgut
Needs Everything Eye Detached Something Writer Brain Amoral Watch
'Arctic Summer,' as you might know, is the title of Forster's one unfinished novel. Damon Galgut
You Unfinished Summer Arctic Know Title Might Novel
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
Battle Writing Nine India Stuck Writers Hazard Almost Most Periods Occupational Greatest Got Passage Blocked His Years Being Novel Last
South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter. Damon Galgut
Become South Africa Bitter Small Highly Becomes Issues South Quite Africa Even
Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present. Damon Galgut
Change Matter Past Radical Some Between Deal Makes Always Subject Subject Matter Any Stories Interesting Then Radical Change Trauma Present Extent
I go for long walks in Newlands Forest in Cape Town, and I go to the Turkish baths on Sunday mornings. Damon Galgut
Sunday Long Walks Baths Mornings Town Go Forest Turkish Cape
I'm not designed to interact with society. Damon Galgut
Society Interact Designed
Stationery gets me excited because it has an individual character, unlike computers, which may be convenient but are generic and bland. Damon Galgut
Character Me Unlike Bland Individual Computers Excited Generic Because Gets May Convenient Which
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out. Damon Galgut
Definitely Airport Out Trains Planes Incapable Working
Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing. Damon Galgut
Good Me Writing Mind State Composed Yoga Which Serene Helps
Almost overnight, white people have gone from being very powerful to potentially irrelevant. Their future in South Africa is not what many had envisaged, so it involves a lot of reinvention. Damon Galgut
Future People South Africa Gone White Potentially Had Almost Powerful Envisaged Involves Overnight South Lot Very Irrelevant Africa Being Many Reinvention
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women. Damon Galgut
Myself Gay Women Men Men And Women Drawn Rather Between Than Being Interactions Naturally
I work by hand, with a fountain pen, in bound notebooks I buy in India. Damon Galgut
Work Buy Pen India Bound Hand Notebooks Fountain Fountain Pen
Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult. Damon Galgut
Good You Book Writing Old Sit Difficult Incredibly Find Rather Point Dripping Write Almost Almost Anything Obsession Reach Household Because Tap Very Than Fix Wall Tasks Order Anything Paint Starting
Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you. Damon Galgut
You Writing Words Way About Individual Particular Like Stunts Effect Where Little Create Acting Use Pull
While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme. Damon Galgut
You Gift Looking Big Writers Operation Were While Apartheid Theme
I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion. Damon Galgut
Service Memory Generation People Young Military Changed Distant Abstract Idea Another How How Much Up Just Apartheid Young People Much Notion Fascinated Growing Military Service Whom Growing Up Now
Traveling is one of few zones of experience where you are not directly plugged into the world around you. You're not part of the society you're passing through. Damon Galgut
You Experience World Few Society Directly Through Part Around Passing Where Traveling Zone
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction. Damon Galgut
South South African Confess African Fiction Should
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
Future Freedom Mind Past Sense Nothing Down Way Though Easy Finding More Weight Perhaps Cliche Than Your Imaginative
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
Work Writing First Out India Hoping Beach Because Go Up Yoga Ended While Interest Centre Work Out
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
Book India About Write Passage Been Goes Behind Wanting Story Interesting Creating Novel
Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it. Damon Galgut
Needs Unconscious Obsession Real Motivation Behind

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