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

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

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

- 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 …

- Jhumpa Lahiri

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

- Jhumpa Lahiri