Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider’s look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.
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.
More Akhil Sharma Quotes
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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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When 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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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 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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