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The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.

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Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of...

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

It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about...

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.

To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a...

Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.

I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way.

A novel means a new way of doing a story. If you go back the origins of a novel, 'Clarissa' - that's not a novel; it's just a bunch of letters. But it isn't! Because it's organised in a particular...

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.

Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

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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