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Ru Freeman Biography

Writer

Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan-American writer born in Sri Lanka in 1967. Her works primarily explore social issues such as race, class, and gender, known for their delicate emotions and profound social insights.

Love Romance Soulmates

Book:A Disobedient Girl

Source: A Disobedient Girl

“Diatonic, he heard the word in his head. Chromatic, pentatonic, hexatonic, heptatonic, octatonic, each iteration of the scale opening innumerable possibilities for harmony. He thought about the Pythagorean major third, the Didymus comma, the way the intervals sound out of tune rather than as though they were different notes. This, he thought, was where his brilliance at mathematics bled into his love of music; music was the realm in which his mathematical brain danced.”

Way Different Sound Brain Heard Possibility Majors Thirds Harmony Mathematics Notes Scales Opening Mathematical Realms Tunes His Love Brilliance Music Love Intervals

Author:Ru Freeman

“There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start.”

Source Wikipedia

Author: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 happen to them, this is what is important. I feel that if I can tell THAT story well, then people will go and Google the rest and fill in what they need to know.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Feels Trying Wells I Can Important Stories Happens Things Happen Google Rolling

Author:Ru Freeman

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

Writing Conflict

Author:Ru Freeman

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

War Childhood Youth Defined Adulthood

Author:Ru Freeman

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

War Killing Islands Affected Sri Lanka

Author: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.”

Thinking Writing Character Helping Track

Author: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.”

Writing I Can Life Is Busy

Author:Ru Freeman

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

Needs Stories Smart Editors Really Smart Really Amazing Astute

Author:Ru Freeman

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

Results New Things

Author:Ru Freeman

“There is no right and wrong, and precepts are for fools. Every thing is just as it is! And we must experience things without condemning them, because if we condemn them, then we are becoming too involved.”

Ifs Fool Becoming Involved Condemning

Book:A Disobedient Girl: A Novel

Source: A Disobedient Girl: A Novel

About the Author

Born: 1967
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 12

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A Disobedient GirlRelated source material

A Disobedient Girl: A NovelRelated source material

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