32 Quotes by Sunil Yapa

It's not like being a writer is a very lucrative career, but you know, you just know when you've found what you're really meant to do.

When I was 26 or 27, I took a year off before I was going to get my Ph.D. in geography and started traveling. And within a month, I said, 'I don't want to be academic. I want to write fiction.' And as soon as I said that - 'I'm going to write fiction' - everything in my life started to make sense.

When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist Colum McCann, said I had to. I read 'Beloved' and 'Song of Solomon.' Pretty incredible.

One of my favorite authors is Michael Ondaatje.

Tina Fey is my hero. Some of the most brilliant people don't come off as brilliant.