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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

Akhil Sharma

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
Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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Hold Oppose People Story View
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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Dramatixed Emotional Experience Guarantee Proving Reader Scene Sophisticated Universal Way
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
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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Book Exposition Expression Feel Reader Suggest Tender Trust
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
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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Character Come Figure Humor Innocence Opportunity Trying
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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Attribute Based Character Composite Dialogue Memories Note Simply Spoken Taken Word
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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Being Expectation Human Life Living More Open Rain relief
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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Describe Need Often People Quick Shorthand Thinking Use
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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Book Develop Effect Guide Large Memory Model Muscle Require Role
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Deeply Hindus Parent Pious
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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Doctor Grand Honesty Intelligence Intern Life Profound Question Resonate Struggled Voice
To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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Assuming Contain Emotional Exposition Tenderness Way
The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Baby Family Life Memories Missing Past
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Absolute True

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

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