Quotes from Jhumpa Lahiri

Una conversazione implica una specie di collaborazione e, spesso, un atto di perdono. Quando parlo posso sbagliarmi ma, in qualche modo, riesco a spiegarmi. Sulla pagina sono sola. La lingua parlata è una specie di antecamera rispetto a quella scritta, la quale ha una propria logica, ancora più severa, più inafferrabile.

A spider reaches the liberty of space by means of its own thread.

Maybe because from the creative point of view there is nothing so dangerous as security.

There is no such thing as a perfect name.

I think that a writer should observe the real world before imagining a non-existent one.

I have very little choice. If I don't write, I feel dreadful. So I write.

My father encouraged me to work in the library, just because it was the world that he knew. But I also wanted to do it. I also wanted to work in the library and be part of the library somehow, because it represented a world that really wasn't represented in my home, and I wanted it to be.