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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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In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.

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Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

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I grew up in Colombo but was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in the countryside as well. Although there was considerable turbulence, even in the 1950s, it did not throw a shadow on my consciousness.

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My parents knew a wider range of people than most, and so we had actors, journalists, politicians, planters, sportsmen and women and business folk all coming in and out of the places we lived in. Although my parents were not wealthy, they lived a legendary and amazingly cosmopolitan life.

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Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

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I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

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