Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
AKHIL SHARMAFor me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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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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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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We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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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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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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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.
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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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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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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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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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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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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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