It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage. — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much… — 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
