I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how they react, how things happen to them, this is what is important. I feel that if… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so. — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed. — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs. — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
“Such bliss is not meant to last. In my husband's house, my children were my real gifts.” — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
“And after that until the end, there was no relief from being a girl with chores that she wasn’t being paid for, a girl… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
“There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
“He was with me, beside me, inside me, and I did not care that my children were asleep, alone at home, or that the… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how… — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere. — Ru Freeman Copy Share Image
