FastSaying

On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.


Jhumpa Lahiri

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It is also our hope that the US policy will not be based on transitory and evolving trends, but rath...
JEHANGIR KARAMAT The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.
JACQUELINE CAREY People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR “Modeling is my sexy side. Writing and directing is my creative side. Being a good cook, lover, mo...
NERISSA IRVING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I would hope that I could reach people through my writing.
DEBRA LAFAVE I think the South Side is clearly ready for this type of use. The South Side is evolving rapidly, an...
SCOTT SMITH The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Isolation offered its own form of companionship
JHUMPA LAHIRI That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
JHUMPA LAHIRI I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two c...
JHUMPA LAHIRI A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling th...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of t...
JHUMPA LAHIRI All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.
JHUMPA LAHIRI When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I...
JHUMPA LAHIRI My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of wha...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I have two young children, and I will say that motherhood is its own peak, just like in the process ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant,...
JHUMPA LAHIRI In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced Engl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw...
JHUMPA LAHIRI You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, wh...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daugh...
JHUMPA LAHIRI This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 f...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I find it really liberating to be in a place where I am a foreigner in every way. I've lived wit...
JHUMPA LAHIRI On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfami...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I've gained a lot from James Joyce, Tolstoy, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitan...
JHUMPA LAHIRI From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a p...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an acce...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My n...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters—it was something about the way they carried ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will t...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I'm always intrigued by authors who say, 'This book took 17 drafts.' They're very cl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define m...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think there are a lot of misconceptions on both sides, the developing vs. the developed world, esp...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one anoth...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocea...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
JHUMPA LAHIRI In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They w...
JHUMPA LAHIRI In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was so...
JHUMPA LAHIRI He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people’s lives, though all of it, s...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Descartes, in his Third Meditation, said that God re-created the body at each successive moment. So ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI When Deepa poured Bela some water from the urn that stood on a little stool, in the corner of the ro...
JHUMPA LAHIRI She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Time flowed for Bela in the opposite direction. The day after yesterday, she sometimes said. Pronoun...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr...
JHUMPA LAHIRI But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the firs...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I don't know, he said, handing her the ticket. He'd been standing there all the while on the sidewal...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Too much information, and yet, in her case, not enough. In a world of diminishing mystery, the unkno...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging throu...
JHUMPA LAHIRI There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it wo...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the wo...
JHUMPA LAHIRI ...learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.
JHUMPA LAHIRI The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.
JHUMPA LAHIRI She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart an...
JHUMPA LAHIRI War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war,
JHUMPA LAHIRI With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
JHUMPA LAHIRI With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.
JHUMPA LAHIRI And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd be...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr...
JHUMPA LAHIRI For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of...
JHUMPA LAHIRI In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.
JHUMPA LAHIRI I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever.
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight in...
JHUMPA LAHIRI While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new worl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each pe...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I recently discovered the work of Giorgio Manganelli, who wrote a collection called 'Centuria,&#...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of th...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so f...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount t...
JHUMPA LAHIRI If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fict...
JHUMPA LAHIRI If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that pl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Even printed, on pages that are bound, sentences remain unsettled organisms. Years later, I can alwa...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time whil...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the b...
JHUMPA LAHIRI

More Jhumpa Lahiri

The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Isolation offered its own form of companionship
JHUMPA LAHIRI That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
JHUMPA LAHIRI I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two c...
JHUMPA LAHIRI A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling th...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of t...
JHUMPA LAHIRI All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction.
JHUMPA LAHIRI When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I...
JHUMPA LAHIRI My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of wha...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I have two young children, and I will say that motherhood is its own peak, just like in the process ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Immersing myself in Shakespeare's plays, reading them closely under the guidance of a brilliant,...
JHUMPA LAHIRI In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced Engl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw...
JHUMPA LAHIRI You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, wh...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think that what I have been truly searching for as a person, as a writer, as a thinker, as a daugh...
JHUMPA LAHIRI This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 f...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I find it really liberating to be in a place where I am a foreigner in every way. I've lived wit...
JHUMPA LAHIRI On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfami...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I've gained a lot from James Joyce, Tolstoy, Chekhov and R. K. Narayan. While writing, I try to ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitan...
JHUMPA LAHIRI From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a p...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an acce...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My n...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters—it was something about the way they carried ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Writing has certain advantages; film is another way to tell a story. An experienced filmmaker will t...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I'm always intrigued by authors who say, 'This book took 17 drafts.' They're very cl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I have two passports because I have to have at least one, and I really don't know how I define m...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think there are a lot of misconceptions on both sides, the developing vs. the developed world, esp...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one anoth...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocea...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
JHUMPA LAHIRI In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up from the page. They w...
JHUMPA LAHIRI In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was so...
JHUMPA LAHIRI He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people’s lives, though all of it, s...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Descartes, in his Third Meditation, said that God re-created the body at each successive moment. So ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI When Deepa poured Bela some water from the urn that stood on a little stool, in the corner of the ro...
JHUMPA LAHIRI She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Time flowed for Bela in the opposite direction. The day after yesterday, she sometimes said. Pronoun...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Plato says the purpose of philosophy is to teach us how to die.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr...
JHUMPA LAHIRI But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI The imperfection became a mark of distinction about their home. Something visitors noticed, the firs...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I don't know, he said, handing her the ticket. He'd been standing there all the while on the sidewal...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Too much information, and yet, in her case, not enough. In a world of diminishing mystery, the unkno...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Everything in Bela's life has been a reaction. I am who I am, she would say, I live as I do because ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging throu...
JHUMPA LAHIRI There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it wo...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the wo...
JHUMPA LAHIRI ...learning was an act of rediscovery, knowledge a form of remembering.
JHUMPA LAHIRI The future haunted but kept her alive; it remained her sustenance and also her predator.
JHUMPA LAHIRI Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.
JHUMPA LAHIRI She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart an...
JHUMPA LAHIRI War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war,
JHUMPA LAHIRI With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before
JHUMPA LAHIRI With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether.
JHUMPA LAHIRI And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd be...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tr...
JHUMPA LAHIRI For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of...
JHUMPA LAHIRI In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.
JHUMPA LAHIRI I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever.
JHUMPA LAHIRI I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of...
JHUMPA LAHIRI On weekdays, as soon as she picked Bela from the bus stop and brought her home, she went straight in...
JHUMPA LAHIRI While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new worl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each pe...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I recently discovered the work of Giorgio Manganelli, who wrote a collection called 'Centuria,&#...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of th...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so f...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount t...
JHUMPA LAHIRI If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fict...
JHUMPA LAHIRI If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that pl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Even printed, on pages that are bound, sentences remain unsettled organisms. Years later, I can alwa...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time whil...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the b...
JHUMPA LAHIRI When you’re in love, you want to live forever. You want the emotion, the excitement you feel to la...
JHUMPA LAHIRI You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much abo...
JHUMPA LAHIRI On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a ...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It imparts a certain momentum to nuclear negotiations with the US. France has played a significant r...
DILIP LAHIRI There is a great deal of French interest in India now that must still be converted into action on th...
DILIP LAHIRI