- Author | 1954 -
People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.
Romesh Gunesekera
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I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.
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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.
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With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.
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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.
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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.
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We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
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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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My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.
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I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.
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I probably felt most out of place as a young kid growing up in Sri Lanka. My mental world was somewhere else, partly because of reading and daydreaming.
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As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.
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