We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
AKHIL SHARMAWe all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
AKHIL SHARMAI 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.
AKHIL SHARMAI tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships.
AKHIL SHARMAI 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.
AKHIL SHARMAIt is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
AKHIL SHARMAThe little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
AKHIL SHARMAIt 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.
AKHIL SHARMAThere are also so many emotional aspects to money – feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.
AKHIL SHARMAWhile 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.
AKHIL SHARMAIntern 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 SHARMAMy parents are deeply pious Hindus.
AKHIL SHARMAThe babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
AKHIL SHARMAExposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
AKHIL SHARMAWhen 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 SHARMATo me exposition always contains tenderness.
AKHIL SHARMAIt’s easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don’t want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.
AKHIL SHARMA