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 I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
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…
- 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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender. - Akhil Sharma
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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