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.
AKHIL SHARMAIt is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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 create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.
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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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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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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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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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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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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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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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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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My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
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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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