The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion. - Jhumpa Lahiri
I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.
- Jhumpa Lahiri
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall… - Jhumpa Lahiri
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall…
You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see … - Jhumpa Lahiri
You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see …
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being. - Jhumpa Lahiri
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it. - Jhumpa Lahiri
Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'. - Jhumpa Lahiri
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.
That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch. - Jhumpa Lahiri
That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing - Jhumpa Lahiri
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
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 … - Jhumpa Lahiri
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 …
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