- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
- Light
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Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
- Down
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I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
- Book
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It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
- Feel
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I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
- Busy
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As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
- Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020