Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

All the great history has been written with passion …. Fiction is history from below.

Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.

I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars.

I'm just a story teller.

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.

I'm just a storyteller.

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

Both types of books - fiction and nonfiction - are a search for story. As a writer and a reader, there's nothing I crave more than a good story!

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

I'm always interested in storytelling and whatever form that comes in.