Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
AKHIL SHARMA
The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
More Akhil Sharma Quotes
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If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it actually is.
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As a human being living one’s life, one is more open to relief when there is rain or the expectation of rain. That readiness for hope gets manifested in my stories and that of many other Indian writers.
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Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.
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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.
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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Also, I have to assume that readers are sophisticated enough to know that not every person in a community is the same, and so there are many people who would not force an abortion just because a fetus is female.
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I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships.
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Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.
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