It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
AKHIL SHARMAWhen 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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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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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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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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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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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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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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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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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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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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I can guide them to books that will serve as role models. Largely, though, one learns to write almost like developing muscle memory, and this requires years of effort.
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My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions.
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