Akhil Sharma Quotes

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

I've always played that edge of fact and fiction. I used to be a filmmaker, and certainly in film that's a line that filmmakers cross more readily and more easily than novelists.

In 'Out of the Dark,' I'm talking about my own life. I'm not talking as a character or speaking as a character. I was not as free as when I write fiction.

Being a fiction writer makes you someone who works with irresponsibility.

There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.

I'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate and change and control.

I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

My best days do seem like a distillation of all that was best about school. Write a story! Paint a picture! Write a poem! Make a print!

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true.

I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.

I've been falsely accused of drawing too much from real life. But I am a petty thief - I take little things. And, I mean, I can hardly write 10 words before I start to make things up. I start to invent, because that's what I want to do. I'm running away to an invented place.

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself.

Writers, all the good ones, are Natural Born Liars.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.