"For years, I sort of would try to……" — Jhumpa Lahiri
"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 four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase."
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85 Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning…
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
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A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
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I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
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A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,
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A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
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Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks,…
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Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain…
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I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
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I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have…
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On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which…
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