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32 quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri

Jhumpa Lahiri (Bengali: ঝ ম প ল হ ড ; born on July 11, 1967) is an Indian American author. Lahiri's debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name. She was born Nilanjana Sudeshna but goes by her nickname (or in Bengali, her "Daak naam") Jhumpa. Lahiri is a member of the President's Committee on the...
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Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

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I've 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... →

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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... →

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My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way... →

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He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was... →

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This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode... →

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The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

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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.

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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... →

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A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

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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.

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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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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.

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