Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
AKHIL SHARMAMy parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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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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One’s life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one’s eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.
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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn’t. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.
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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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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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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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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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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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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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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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