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.
AKHIL SHARMAIt’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.
More Akhil Sharma Quotes
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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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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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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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I need to tell the things that are important but which don’t make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.
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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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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question ‘What should I do with my life?’ In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence,
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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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People often need to describe things quickly and so they use a shorthand. The problem is that after they use a label, they begin to think only in terms of the label instead of the totality of the experience a novel provides.
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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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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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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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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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