"Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an……" — Jhumpa Lahiri
"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 very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books."
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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 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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