Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer,
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.
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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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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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My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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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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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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We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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It’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.
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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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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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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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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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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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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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