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Sure, cricket on a beach on the isle of Jura is different from a Test match in a stadium in Galle, 6000 miles away, despite the sea air.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Air
#Cricket
#Match
#Sea
#Test
For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Act
#Me
#Time
#Urgency
#Writing
In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Live
#Nostalgia
#Past
#Recognition
#Time
Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Anxiety
#Full
#Get
#Nostalgia
#Sense
Writing is incredibly important to me as a way of handling the world, understanding how it works.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Important
#Me
#Understanding
#Way
#World
The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Education
#Mistake
#Movement
#Political
If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#City
#Connection
#Create
#Distance
#Time
Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Future
#Past
#Power
#Present
#Who
Every Sri Lankan, and almost every visitor to Sri Lanka, carries a longing for the place in some small form - hiraeth, the Welsh call it - wherever they go and whatever their background. It binds them however much the war and politics might try to divide them.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Go
#Place
#Politics
#Try
#War
Imaginative writing, to me, is a way of discovering who we are and what we have to contend with; discovering what is out there and also what is not there. It enables me to think and explore and make something new with language while trying to make sense of our lives.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Language
#Me
#New
#Trying
#Way
At 16, I started reading trashy stuff, anything slightly naughty and risque.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Anything
#Naughty
#Reading
#Stuff
I find anonymous music frees me best. Chinese pop can be perfect. I can't decipher anything on the CD label; there is nothing I can hang on to.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Best
#Me
#Music
#Nothing
#Perfect
Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Language
#Means
#Our
#Relationship
#Time
Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Find
#Live
#Through
#Want
#Well
A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Book
#Driver
#Hands
#Journey
#Road
To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Architecture
#History
#Return
#Strange
Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.
- Romesh Gunesekera
#Everyone
#Island
#Land
#Place
#Poetry
#Special
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