Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
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It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing.
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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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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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It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
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You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.
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