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 Read Quote
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 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish. Akhil Sharma Read Quote
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. Akhil Sharma Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place. Akhil Sharma Read Quote
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 Read Quote
