"The first sentence of a book is a……" — Jhumpa Lahiri
"The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates."
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85 Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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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Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
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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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