Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable pos…

- Ru Freeman

Every new thing is a result of everything you wrote before.

- Ru Freeman

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

- Ru Freeman

I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.

- Ru Freeman

Sri Lanka is a small island, and the war affected everybody. Everybody knew somebody who was killing or being killed.

- Ru Freeman

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for me. To keep track of the characters.

- Ru Freeman

My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write all day.

- Ru Freeman

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

- Ru Freeman

I really try to avoid, you know, rolling out the history. The people are so important to me, and what happens to them, how they react, how things hap…

- Ru Freeman