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.

AKHIL SHARMA

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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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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 SHARMA

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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Info Moving Part Real Restaurant
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.

AKHIL SHARMA

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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Being Living More relief
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.

AKHIL SHARMA

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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Abortion Breaking Community News Newspaper Obvious Read
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.

AKHIL SHARMA

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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Community Many Reader Sophisticated
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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Certainly Detail Else Productive Someone Spending Tend
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.

AKHIL SHARMA

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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Describe Often Shorthand Use
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Deeply Hindus Parent Pious
I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships.

AKHIL SHARMA

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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Alike Much
Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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Long Themselves Well
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.

AKHIL SHARMA

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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Cry Everything Loose Memory Slide Tear
The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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Dominant Indian Monsoon Such
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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Able Child First Legible Narrator
We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.

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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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Become Fortunate Other Think
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.

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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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Causing Disengage Reader
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,

AKHIL SHARMA

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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Grand Intern Profound Struggled
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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