Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

United States, Author
July 11, 1967

Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" Lahiri (born July 11, 1967) is an American author of Indian origin, known for her short-stories, novels and essays in English, and more recently, in Italian.

It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me."

Jhumpa Lahiri
- Writing
- Mean
- Sometimes
I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

Jhumpa Lahiri

A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!

Jhumpa Lahiri
- Periods