Akhil Sharma

The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to…

— Akhil Sharma

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end…

— Akhil Sharma

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer…

— Akhil Sharma

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

— Akhil Sharma

As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I…

— Akhil Sharma

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

— Akhil Sharma

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

— Akhil Sharma

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world…

— Akhil Sharma

“We have to keep trusting God. We can’t just trust God when he’s doing what we want. We have to trust him…

— Akhil Sharma

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

— Akhil Sharma

During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used…

— Akhil Sharma

“History repeats itself and mine is full of failures, so I am not surprised.”

— Akhil Sharma

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

I need to tell the things that are important but which don't make sense in terms of the narrative, things that would…

— Akhil Sharma

As a human being living one's life, one is more open to relief when there is rain or the expectation of rain.…

— Akhil Sharma

Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train…

— Akhil Sharma

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

— Akhil Sharma

“Why hadn’t people been nicer when it mattered? I wondered.”

— Akhil Sharma

I know how to write fiction well.

— Akhil Sharma

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

— Akhil Sharma

“An elderly black man with gray hair said, "Every bottle should come with a warning: 'This bottle may cause you to lose…

— Akhil Sharma

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much…

— Akhil Sharma

I don't really revise. I tend to rewrite.

— Akhil Sharma

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

— Akhil Sharma

“You could be a hunter of success or a warrior of failure - the choice is yours”

— Akhil Sharma