Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

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Jhumpa Lahiri

Profession : Author

Birth : July 11, 1967

Oddly, I feel more protected when I write in Italian, even though I'm also more exposed.

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I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.

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My parents came from Calcutta. They arrived in Cambridge, much like the parents in my novel. And I found myself sort of caught between the world of my parents and the world they had left behind and still clung to, and also the world that surrounded me at school and everywhere else, as soon as I set foot out the door.

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It was very hard for me, for most of my life, to feel American, or call myself American, and that is a very complicated topic that would require a very long conversation.

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I try to represent specific experiences of specific characters, and that's all I want to try to do. I don't ever try to think about representing a culture, because its impossible, and someone will fault you. And it just doesn't interest me.

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I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.

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They've lived here now for more than half of their lives, and they raised a family here and now have grandchildren here... It has become their home, but at the same time, for my parents, I don't think either of them will ever consciously think, 'I am an American.'

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