As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions.
AKHIL SHARMAMy 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.
More Akhil Sharma Quotes
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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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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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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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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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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money.
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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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If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it actually is.
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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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Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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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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Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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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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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