Best Jhumpa Lahiri Quotations
- Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I… Book
- At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book,… Adjusted
- For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another… Actually Thought
- He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he… Brookline
- I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of… Admired
- I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense… All
- The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on… Audience
- This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the… Any
- Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it… Along
- You know, since the reviews have come out and people have reacted to it, I've realized that is in a sense what has happened. But… Any