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Stories Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
- I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
- I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
- I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.
- I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories…
- When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story…
- It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me,…
- I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be…
- For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I…
- It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the…
- 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…
- 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…
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