There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.

I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for me. To keep track of the characters.

There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.