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.
AKHIL SHARMAThe monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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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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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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I need to tell the things that are important but which don’t make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would destroy symmetry or narrative pace. This is my personal belief about what it means to write nonfiction.
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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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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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We all become afraid. We all look at others and think these other people are more fortunate than us.
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There are also so many emotional aspects to money – feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.
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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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To me exposition always contains tenderness.
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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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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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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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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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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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