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People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.

Akhil Sharma

The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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Baby Become Little Old Soul Shrink
There are also so many emotional aspects to money – feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.
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Aspect Emotional Feeling Fiction How Inadequacy Money Security Unreal
Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer,
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Doing Good Important Influence People Realize Thing Writer Writing
Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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Hold Oppose People Story View
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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Alike Much People Pretty Thinking Unique
Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question ‘What should I do with my life?’ In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence,
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Doctor Grand Honesty Intelligence Intern Life Profound Question Resonate Struggled Voice
While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.
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Dramatixed Emotional Experience Guarantee Proving Reader Scene Sophisticated Universal Way
It’s easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don’t want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.
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Act Be Kind Fear Grow Up Out Want
The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they’ll forget.
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Away Cry Everything Forget Loose Lost Memory Slide Tear
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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Being Expectation Human Life Living More Open Rain relief
Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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Always Hurt Long Themselves Thinking Well
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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Causing Difficult Disengage Physical Reader Writing
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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Certainly Detail Different How Life Someone Spend Think Thinking Unique
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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Lose Mind Novel Seven Started Writing Year
When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?
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Better Done Good Person Sometimes Success Wonder Work
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Deeply Hindus Parent Pious

People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.

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People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.

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