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In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.
— Romesh Gunesekera
With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.
— Romesh Gunesekera
I find anonymous music frees me best. Chinese pop can be perfect. I can't decipher anything on the CD label; there is nothing I can hang on to.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.
— Romesh Gunesekera
As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.
— Romesh Gunesekera
I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.
— Romesh Gunesekera
People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Cricket fans all over the world probably have more in common with each other than with their fellow citizens.
— Romesh Gunesekera
I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.
— Romesh Gunesekera
I want to keep an inner life alive and, with luck, somebody else's, too.
— Romesh Gunesekera
My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.
— Romesh Gunesekera
The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.
— Romesh Gunesekera
You might want to write 'War and Peace,' but that might not be who you are. You might be better off with nursery rhymes.
— Romesh Gunesekera
My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend every day making sure that they know this.
— Russell Simmons
An aircraft cabin is a place that seems to be nowhere, but I find it steeped in the place left behind and the place ahead.
— Romesh Gunesekera
We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.
— Romesh Gunesekera
It was true what they said about an American woman's southern drawl being able to melt a man.
— Lyla Dune
I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.
— Romesh Gunesekera
I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Determined soul, willing spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.
— Romesh Gunesekera
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
— Romesh Gunesekera
The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.
— Romesh Gunesekera
When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Artists can help re-imagine a conflict and start a dialogue.
— Romesh Gunesekera
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.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.
— Romesh Gunesekera
Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air.
— Romesh Gunesekera
