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.
I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships. We all become afraid. We all look at… - Akhil Sharma
I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships. We all become afraid. We all look at…
- Akhil Sharma
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 ter… - Akhil Sharma
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 ter…
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… - Akhil Sharma
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…
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and … - Akhil Sharma
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and …
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true. - Akhil Sharma
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about go… - Akhil Sharma
Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer, I realized that he was writing about go…
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 d… - Akhil Sharma
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 d…
To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, ex… - Akhil Sharma
To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, ex…
As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I can guide them to books that will serv… - Akhil Sharma
As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I can guide them to books that will serv…
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