Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

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.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 11, 1967

Topics

WritingStoryThinkEnoughDownTry

The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.

Jerry Leiber

FireMemoryMeYoungFirstRadio

I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

Jennifer Holliday

LoveMusicMeLegendKnowWrite

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

John Dryden

FateThingsObeyMustAll Things

We know how to stop Ebola: by isolating and treating patients, tracing and monitoring their contacts, and breaking the chains of transmission.

Tom Frieden

StopKnowChainsMonitoringBreaking

The urge to dominion is God-given and is basic to the nature of man. An aspect of this dominion is property.

Rousas John Rushdoony

NatureManPropertyBasicDominion

Every team has a play style, in my opinion. The video speaks for itself; that's what we always pay attention to.

Mike McCarthy

StyleTeamOpinionAttentionPlay

I got a third-degree ankle sprain practicing long jump. I never fully recovered. That was my first heartbreak. I thought track was going to be something that was going to happen in my life. It never went in the direction I wanted it to, no matter how hard I tried.

Michelle Wolf

LifeDirectionThoughtMy LifeLong

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

Moby

TruthMeBlameHairTruth IsRobbed

The Federal Communications Commission needs to listen and serve the American people, not special interests.

Jared Polis

PeopleAmericanSpecialListenServe

I'm not looking to be famous, but I want a body of work and a moral character that is deserving of fame.

Jonathan Tucker

WorkCharacterLookingFamousBody

Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.

Dennis Prager

RacismWorldAmericaCountryKnow

I honestly thought I probably did sell 100 million books. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary to me.

Clive Cussler

MeThoughtOutSeemSellMillion

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