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With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy; my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.

I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings like that. It was only in the Philippines when I was about 15 that I started reading books by very contemporary...

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.

I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

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