Top 54 Quotes by Romesh Gunesekera

I believe if a sentence is to retain its strength over time, it needs to be carefully made.

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.

Whether we live in Sri Lanka or Malaysia or India, the U.K. or the U.S., we face similar issues of understanding, remembering the past that has made us and seeing the future we want.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography.