Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

Sometimes writing it is a good way to understand something.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

I write to express my thoughts, my feelings. I want people to think.

My only way of processing anything for me is by writing.

You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within.

Part of my therapy is to write.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

When I go back and read my journals or fiction, I am always surprised. I may not remember having those thoughts, but they still exist and I know they are mine, and it's all part of making sense of who I am.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

It was difficult for me because I was searching for the answer for so long, and the answer was right in front of me. Do what I do best.

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.

For me, writing is a parenthesis where I can make sense of life.

What writing does is to reveal.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.