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Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.

Romesh Gunesekera

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
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Birth: 1954

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Time Me Writing Urgency Fiction Act

I struggle with pride every day, but the one thing that I try to remind myself everyday is that I'm still a sinner no matter how many points/assists/win I get on the court.

Myself Day Struggle Pride Every Day

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

Business Money School New York Me

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.

Education Experience Walk Theatre

Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes.

Shoes Walk People Saying Sometimes

I always try to find things worth saying, things that are supposed to be said instead of being contrived. I do a ton of writing.

Writing Saying Worth Find Said Try

Maybe in a few months I can start to daydream if we are still top of the league. That is the main one for us.

Start I Can Top Us Daydream Still

I wouldn't change my childhood for anything. The Dutch are really nice people. The schools were great.

Change Great Childhood People Nice

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.

Life Experience Choices Look Acting

I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into our country.

People Border Think Country Want Us

I'm not much of a cook. I used to keep books in my gas oven - until someone told me it was a fire hazard.

Michiko Kakutani

Fire Me Someone Used Keep Cook

I was raised by my father, who was a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bass player. His brothers all did the same thing, so I was kind of always raised around the music.

Father Music Kind Always Singer

The winter's a little bit daunting in Montana.

Winter Little Montana Little Bit Bit

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