Jhumpa Lahiri quotes - page 2

You remind me of everything that followed. (Jhumpa Lahiri)
She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot. View quote
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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 which is hard enough. View quote
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In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about, like live matter in soil. View quote
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Ive inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed. View quote
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With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether. View quote
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That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch. View quote
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It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do. View quote
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being. View quote
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I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion. View quote
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I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. View quote
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A woman who had fallen out of love with her life. View quote
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That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet. View quote
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In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists. View quote
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Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go. View quote
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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 and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up. View quote
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It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. View quote
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I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now. View quote
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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 never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married. View quote
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On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. (Jhumpa Lahiri)
It interests me to imagine characters shifting from one situation and one location to another for whatever the circumstances may be. View quote
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The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. View quote
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The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life. View quote
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Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young. View quote
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