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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.

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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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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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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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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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Also, I have to assume that readers are sophisticated enough to know that not every person in a community is the same, and so there are many people who would not force an abortion just because a fetus is female.
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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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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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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 babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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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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As 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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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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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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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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