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.
AKHIL SHARMAWhy 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 write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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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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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We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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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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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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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 babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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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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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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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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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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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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