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.
AKHIL SHARMAMy parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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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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We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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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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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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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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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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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money.
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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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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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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.
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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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