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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.
- Distance
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular way! A novel is what you make of it.
- Embarking
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- Nov 07, 2020
A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.
- I Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there ever will be a biopic on me! I would much like some of my books to be made into films.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings like that. It was only in the Philippines when I was about 15 that I started reading books by very contemporary writers of the Beatnik generation.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020