"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."

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"It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not."

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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

Mark Twain, American Author

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"Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"Only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Seeing's believing but feeling's the truth."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The more you look, the less you see."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"The feeling that the world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

David Levithan, American Author

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"What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?"

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"She gave me this look " she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Perception is subjective."

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"You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel."

Time

"As a writer, one is busy with archaeology."

Self-Awareness

"A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch."

Expression

"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."

Home

"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."

War

"Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."

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"I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure."

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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."

Darkness

"I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door."

Ambiguity

"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."

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