The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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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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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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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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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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it actually is.
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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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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For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what they need. I don’t try to be funny, but am relieved when an opportunity comes up for humor.
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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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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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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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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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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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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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