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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?

Akhil Sharma

The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Baby Family Life Memories Missing Past
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 Children Create Enough First Information Legible Narrator
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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Character Come Figure Humor Innocence Opportunity Trying
I need to tell the things that are important but which don’t make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.
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Important Mean Narrative Need Sense Thing Writing
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
The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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Baby Become Little Old Soul Shrink
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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Doing Good Important Influence People Realize Thing Writer Writing
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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Authority Book Fact Fiction Novel Real Something True World 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 Different How Life Someone Spend Think Thinking Unique
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Absolute True
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
My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Deeply Hindus Parent Pious
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
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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Attribute Based Character Composite Dialogue Memories Note Simply Spoken Taken Word
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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Assume Community Female Many Person Reader Same Sophisticated
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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Book Exposition Expression Feel Reader Suggest Tender Trust

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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