“Isolation offered its own form of companionship”
Source: The Lowland
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Famous Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes
Source: The Lowland
“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.”
Source: The Lowland
“Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.”
“I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.”
Source: Interpreter of Maladies
“Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.”
“We are all #humans and we all make #mistakes. We #hurt people even if we don't want to.”
“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.”