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Top 20 Akhil Sharma Quotes (2025 Update)

Akhil Sharma Quote: “Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?”

1. “Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies. The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they’ll forget.”

3. “The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies. The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they’ll forget.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “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.”

4. “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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Akhil Sharma Quote: “I used to think my father had been assigned to us by the government.”

5. “I used to think my father had been assigned to us by the government.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.”

6. “To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “I would walk along the fence and frequently I cried so hard that I lost my breath. When this happened, I became detached from myself. I walked and gasped and, as I did, I could feel my unhappiness walking beside me, waiting for my breath to return so that it could climb back inside me. T.”

7. “I would walk along the fence and frequently I cried so hard that I lost my breath. When this happened, I became detached from myself. I walked and gasped and, as I did, I could feel my unhappiness walking beside me, waiting for my breath to return so that it could climb back inside me. T.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “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.”

8. “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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Akhil Sharma Quote: “Vanishing into books, I felt held.”

9. “Vanishing into books, I felt held.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.”

10. “I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.”

11. “For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.”

12. “It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma Quote: “I felt sad, happy, content.”

15. “I felt sad, happy, content.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “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.”

16. “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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Akhil Sharma Quote: “My parents are deeply pious Hindus.”

17. “My parents are deeply pious Hindus.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “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 did success pass me by?”

18. “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 did success pass me by?”

— Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma Quote: “Books were things not as complicated and unsatisfying as real life.”

19. “Books were things not as complicated and unsatisfying as real life.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.”

20. “Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.”

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Akhil Sharma Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Akhil Sharma

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