'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. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
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. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
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… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
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… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I can guide… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
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… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“We have to keep trusting God. We can’t just trust God when he’s doing what we want. We have to trust him even when… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
“History repeats itself and mine is full of failures, so I am not surprised.” — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
