- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may not know where I'm going, but I'll always know where to come home to.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the only one who is not married among my siblings.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
- Exposure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, I can't really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020