Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
AKHIL SHARMAAs 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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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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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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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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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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Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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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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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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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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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 is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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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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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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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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