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