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- Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but…
- 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…
- There was always, he thought, this pleasure ahead of him, an ace of joy up his sleeve so he could say you can do anything…
- Read him slowly, dear girl, you must read Kipling slowly. Watch carefully where the commas fall so you can discover the natural pauses. He is…
- I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up…
- We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of…
- She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
- For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear…
- In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be…
- We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders.
- I am someone who has a cold heart. If I am beside a great grief I throw barriers up so the loss cannot go too…
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