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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

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Absolute True
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 People Read
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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Causing Difficult Disengage Physical Reader Writing
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 Thinking Unique
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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Lose Mind Novel Seven Started Writing Year
The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Baby Family Life Memories Missing Past
Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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Hold Oppose People Story View
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 Need Often People Quick Shorthand Thinking Use
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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Dramatixed Emotional Experience Guarantee Proving Reader Scene Sophisticated Universal Way
To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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Assuming Contain Emotional Exposition Tenderness Way
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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Character Info Money Moving Part Real Restaurant World
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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Experience Good Less People Plain Realized Sentence Stretch Thing
We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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Afraid Become Fortunate Other People Think
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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Doctor Grand Honesty Intelligence Intern Life Profound Question Resonate Struggled Voice
The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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Country Different Dominant Importance Indian Life Monsoon Rain Such
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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Better Done Good Person Sometimes Success Wonder Work

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