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.
AKHIL SHARMATo me exposition always contains tenderness.
More Akhil Sharma Quotes
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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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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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We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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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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Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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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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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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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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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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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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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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