All Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
- Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case.… Assuming
- Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being. Another Human
- A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it! Funny
- I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. From
- A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading, Denying
- A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing Bicultural
- Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful.… All
- Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Assertive
- In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about,… Breathe
- I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories. Anywhere
- I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion. Any
- On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled,… Border
- Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'. From
- It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all… Affect
- We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to. All
- The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Book
- I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece… Book
- I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. Approach
- I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself,… Comparison
- Relationships do not preclude issues of morality. Inspirational