The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
AKHIL SHARMACertainly 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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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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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?
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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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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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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider’s look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.
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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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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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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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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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Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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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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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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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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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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