One’s life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one’s eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.
AKHIL SHARMAFor me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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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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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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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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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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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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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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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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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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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