Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I feel my writing comes from a desire to... well, it's motivated by many things, but it's inherently a contradiction in that I'm writing for myself, and it's a very interior journey. On the other hand, I feel that writers do make that interior journey out of a desire to connect.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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JourneyMyselfWritingFeelDesire

I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.

Jens Lekman

MusicMeControlBetterMoreWrite

It's always fascinating - and sometimes a little disquieting - when two first-rate critics violently disagree.

Robert Gottlieb

SometimesCriticsAlwaysDisagree

Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past.

John Thorn

LivePastEmploymentOwnReliefOur

Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

Ambrose Bierce

TasteDominationSimilarityMatrimony

The modern labor movement that began around the mid-19th century has given us many of the basic working rights that we now take for granted.

Mike Quigley

Take For GrantedLaborNowMovement

A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.

Louise Penny

GoodCharacterHopeGreatPeopleMe

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

Connie Stevens

BeautifulMomBrightTwoSingle

One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.

Conor Oberst

BestYourselfCareFriendsSomeone

Today, loss is something everybody feels. It could be the loss of a friend moving away. It could be your best friend moves to the other side of town or his family does. It's a loss.

Art Malik

FamilyFriendTodayBestMoving

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

Thomas Dolby

MusicTechnologyMeComputersGo

When someone gets a job, it better be clear what they did to get it.

Mark V. Hurd

JobBetterSomeoneClearGetDid

I will not leave my South films for a Hindi film. I want to be sincere to my South film makers and commitments. Only if my dates are not clashing with any of my South films will I do Hindi films.

Kriti Kharbanda

WantWillLeaveSincereFilmOnly

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