- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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