In Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts.

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

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

Politically I also don't believe anymore that we can only have one voice to a story, it's like having one radio station to represent a country. You want the politics of any complicated situation to be complicated in a book of fiction or nonfiction.

We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.

Women want everything of a lover. And too often I would sink below the surface. So armies disappear under sand. And there was her fear of her husband, her belief in her honour, my old desire for self-sufficiency, my disappearances, her suspicions of me, my disbelief that she loved me. The paranoia and claustrophobia of hidden love.

A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out