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Akhil Sharma

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

I know how to write fiction well.

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Akhil Sharma

I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

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Akhil Sharma

During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn’t buy a coffee.

– Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma

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

– Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma

I think immigrants, when they’re stressed, think that there’s something wrong with America, when it’s really just difficult to leave a country and all that you know.

– Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don’t act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

– Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma

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

Akhil Sharma

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.

– Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

– Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma

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

– Akhil Sharma

Akhil Sharma

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.

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