For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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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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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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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As a human being living one’s life, one is more open to relief when there is rain or the expectation of rain. That readiness for hope gets manifested in my stories and that of many other Indian writers.
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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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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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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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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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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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As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions.
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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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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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