Romesh Gunesekera Quotes

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work.

I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make the connection that books are people's stories, that writing is talking on paper, and I want them to write their own stories. I'd like my books to provide that connection for them.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I never thought I could write fiction.

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

At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.

I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

I realized that I've always been a storyteller.

I love writing for young people. It's the literature that was most important to me, the stories that shaped me and informed my own journey as a writer.

When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.

For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

I love telling a story through song. It helps me take it to a deeper place.

I write stories, I don't just write rhymes, I write books.

Find your own way into your story. Find your own way into your game.

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

My whole life I've tried to find the thing I can do that other people can't do, and invest in that, and the one thing I can do is write narratives and build characters. I can do that.