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.
AKHIL SHARMAExposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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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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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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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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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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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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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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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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While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.
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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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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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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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There are also so many emotional aspects to money – feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.
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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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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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