Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
AKHIL SHARMAIt is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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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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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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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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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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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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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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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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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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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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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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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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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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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