"The first sentence of a book is a……" — Jhumpa Lahiri

"The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace."

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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85 Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri has 85 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning…
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading,
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks,…
Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain…
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…
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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