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The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they’ll forget.

Akhil Sharma

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 SHARMA

Able Child Children Create Enough First Information Legible Narrator
I realized that he was writing about good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.
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Experience Good Less People Plain Realized Sentence Stretch Thing
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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Book Help Memories Student Teacher Working
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Deeply Hindus Parent Pious
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.
AKHIL SHARMA

Character Come Figure Humor Innocence Opportunity Trying
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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Certainly Detail Else Productive Someone Spending Tend Thinking Unique
We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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Afraid Become Fortunate Other People Think
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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Lose Mind Novel Seven Started Writing Year
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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Causing Difficult Disengage Physical Reader Writing
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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Abortion Breaking Community News Newspaper Obvious People Read
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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Certainly Detail Different How Life Someone Spend Think Thinking Unique
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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Alike Much People Pretty Thinking Unique
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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Change Completely Country Difficult Dust Feel Light Monsoon More Rain Settle
Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
AKHIL SHARMA

Hold Oppose People Story View
Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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Always Hurt Long Themselves Thinking Well
The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Baby Family Life Memories Missing Past

The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they’ll forget.

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