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You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

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

As a writer, one is busy with archaeology.

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

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