American - Author | July 11, 1967 -
One week after moving to Rome, I started writing in my diary in Italian.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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I'm bound to fail when I write in Italian, but unlike my sense of failure in the past, this doesn't torment or grieve me.
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I think, like any artist or any writer, I just want to have that pure freedom of expression and of thought - the freedom to explore and move in unexpected ways.
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I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.
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Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.
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If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.
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It was important to me to become day-to-day fluent and functional in another language, and about 10 years ago, I went to Rome for the first time and felt an instant gut connection and wanted to get to know the city.
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My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this.
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I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.
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On the technical side, I hope that my writing is evolving and maturing, ripening, deepening.
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Sometimes, so much of the difficulty is the question of 'What am I going to write about?' because the world is so vast.
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I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going to happen, and the pace. But I think if I stop to think about it in an abstract sense, I feel very daunted. I just try to enter into the story and feel my way through it. It's a very murky, intuitive way of going about it.
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