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We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.

Akhil Sharma

One’s life completely changes based on the rain. After the monsoon, because the dust settles, one can see further and so it feels like one’s eyesight has improved or that one is living in a different country where there is more light.
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Change Completely Country Difficult Dust Feel Light Monsoon More Rain Settle
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
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
Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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Hold Oppose People Story View
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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Lose Mind Novel Seven Started Writing Year
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
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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Absolute True
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
To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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Assuming Contain Emotional Exposition Tenderness Way
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
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
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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Book Develop Effect Guide Large Memory Model Muscle Require Role
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
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 People Pretty Thinking Unique
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
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

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