Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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, Reality

  "Trading Stories". www.newyorker.com. June 13 & 20, 2011.

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

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Inspiration, Mean, Writing

  "Trading Stories" by Jhumpa Lahiri, www.newyorker.com. June 13&20, 2011.

• I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Writing, Numbers, Giving

• Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Writing, Assertive, Willfulness

• I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Dream, Book, Writing

• I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Writing, Thinking, Roles

• When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

• In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  New York, Writing, Fiction

• My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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