Akhil Quotes

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.

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

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?

Dreams are those that don't let you sleep at night.

My parents are deeply pious Hindus.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.

I was certain of the uncertainty thatlied ahead which made you A risk, A mystery, And the most annihilating thing I have ever known.

A Rich Person Is One Who Does Not Want Any More Money

a leadership is a position of action process of abolition, completion of mission, over come oppositionand submission of duties

She is like the white skies, the shine, the sun and its rhyme.While he is the darkness that blinds, the moon, the wolf in mysterious confines.