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I read fiction, a little nonfiction, a little poetry - as various as possible.

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Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

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I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

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When I was writing Billy the Kid, all I had was the question, How do I write this book? That's always the question.

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I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

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It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

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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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Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.

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To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.

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Oh, what a might is this whose single frown Doth shake the world as it would shake it down?...

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He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

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Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.

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Can I ever know you Or you know me?

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Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.

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A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

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No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed.

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Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup.

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Two at the very most.

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You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

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