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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

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Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

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The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town.

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I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

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In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.

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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 Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

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It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

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I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: September 12th, 1943

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