Akhil Sharma Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I know how to write fiction well.”

“I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.”

“I think that books are fundamentally educational.”

“My parents are deeply pious Hindus.”

“My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.”

“'Family Life' is a blueprint of my life. It was horrible and physically gruesome in a way the book doesn't attempt to capture. It was emotionally very bleak.”

“I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was going to be 'important.' The novel had taken me 12-and-a-half years to write, and after being with the book for so long, I had no real perspective on the merits or demerits of what I had written. I hoped it was good, but feared that it wasn't.”

“When you read Chekhov, everything has an even gray tone. When you read 'Family Life', everything has an even white tone. It is almost like when you paint on paper, and you can see the paper through the paint.”

“Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions.”