Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.
From Michael Ondaatje
It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.
Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.
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.
I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.
3 perspectives
2 perspectives
1 perspectives