Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WritingReadingProcessYouRight

The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

Jim Drain

WalkColorThinkFeelYouBody

I believe that my music is just about feelings, and the style is just a side effect.

Robert Palmer

MusicStyleBelieveFeelingsSide

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

Jeff Ament

PlayGoingJustEverybodyFinished

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.

Siri Hustvedt

FamilyNatureHappinessFunMe

The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been.

Robin Marantz Henig

ChanceBetterEasyYouMissedUp

I'd like people to get a sense of who I am, yet I want to keep my privacy, too.

Rosamund Pike

I AmPeoplePrivacyWantSenseGet

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

Joyce Carol Oates

PeopleGoWriteThroughWhoMost

The want to improve myself and win tournaments and see how far I go is crucial.

Jason Day

MyselfWinGoWantSeeImprove

It's just an unhealthy way to approach something, trying to outdo your last thing. You've gotta trust evolution, you've gotta trust that the bar is moving, that you don't need to force the bar. It'll just happen.

Johnny Knoxville

TrustMovingTryingYouEvolution

I wish parents at the end would think a little bit about how everything we do affects the lives of our kids and defines who they're going to be.

Diego Luna

ParentsThinkEndWishI WishGoing

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

YouBodyActingKnowSometimesKind

I can fight, but that's the only thing I can do. When it comes to anything other than fighting or talking, I'm not very good.

Tyson Fury

GoodFightFightingTalkingI Can

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