People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.
From Romesh Gunesekera
I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.
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.
With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.
When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.
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.
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.
We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.
I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.
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