We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
AKHIL SHARMAThe monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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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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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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Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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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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Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind.
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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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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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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 monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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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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My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
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Also, I have to assume that readers are sophisticated enough to know that not every person in a community is the same, and so there are many people who would not force an abortion just because a fetus is female.
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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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Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question ‘What should I do with my life?’ In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence,
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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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