“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.” WritingYearsMindLittlesEndsLosesNovelGoneSevenAccomplishThirtySeven YearsSeventh Birthday Author:Akhil Sharma
“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.” NeedsWritingMeanImportantBeliefTermNarrativeMake SensePaceNonfictionSymmetryPersonal Beliefs Author:Akhil Sharma
“It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.” WritingHardDifficultReaderDifficult Things Author: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 good people doing good things. This did not match my experience of life and so I found my sentences stretching and becoming less plain.” PeopleWritingImportantInfluenceGood ThingsI RealizedGood PeopleDoing Good Author: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 serve as role models. Largely, though, one learns to write almost like developing muscle memory, and this requires years of effort.” WritingBookHelpingMemoriesEffortTeacherStudentsSolutionsRole Models Author:Akhil Sharma
