Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money.
AKHIL SHARMAFor me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider’s look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.
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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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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 teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions.
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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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Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn’t. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.
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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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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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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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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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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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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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