You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong. Jhumpa Lahiri afraidfearlessforward share on social
Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India. Jhumpa Lahiri absentbeginindia Change image and share on social
If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day. Jhumpa Lahiri dayfangood Change image and share on social
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. Jhumpa Lahiri bindfailfailure Change image and share on social
Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do. Jhumpa Lahiri affectalterarrange share on social
I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing. Jhumpa Lahiri collegesecretlyslowly Change image and share on social
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. Jhumpa Lahiri americancallcomplicate Change image and share on social
So much of my writing derives from these questions that I ask myself - things that are utterly beyond my personal set of experiences - and it's my attempt to try to... understand, to sort of break out of my own consciousness, you know, the limitations of my own life. Jhumpa Lahiri attemptbreakconsciousness share on social
One week after moving to Rome, I started writing in my diary in Italian. Jhumpa Lahiri diaryitalianmove Change image and share on social
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. Jhumpa Lahiri approachdevicekind Change image and share on social
