Top 40 Quotes by Damon Galgut

About Damon Galgut

These are some quotes by South African author Damon Galgut Playwright, who was born on November 12, 1963.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Damon Galgut

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.

Damon Galgut

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

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

Damon Galgut

I'm not designed to interact with society.

I'm not designed to interact with society.

Damon Galgut

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

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

Damon Galgut

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.

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

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

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

Damon Galgut

I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.

Damon Galgut

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