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"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."
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"I thought of writing a summary about you, but when I finished it was a book."
"I'm fulfilling my calling when I raise my voice high."
"It's not really outstanding when you're standing outOutcry is the only outburst,if you can't shout."
"If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act-truth is always subversive."
"For a woman, every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope."
"I write to express my love for the humanity."
"Let your heart dance with pen and paperNow fill the paper with dancing letters."
"Dress the part! Invent and pretend to your heart's content! Act, sing, and dance while everyone's watching! The world's a stage, remember?"
"It is better for a soul to write the wonders of time while there is still breath."
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"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."
"The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town."
"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."
"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."
"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
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