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I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
He told me he was working as an interpreter in a doctor's office in Brookline, Massachusetts, where I was living at the time, and he was translating for a doctor who had a number of Russian patients. On my way home, after running into him, I just heard this phrase in my head.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
I don't know why, but the older I get the more interested I get in my parents' marriage. And it's interesting to be married yourself, too, because there is an inevitable comparison.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
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.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
I think the fundamental thing about writing fiction is that you write what interests you and what inspires you. It can't be forced. I see no need to write about anything else or any other type of world.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
My reasons for coming to get married in Calcutta are complicated, and it's very hard to put it into a sentence. People ask me why. To me, it just felt like a very natural and exciting decision.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'm writing in it now as well as reading it. It is so interesting delving further into language.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
American? Indian? I don't know what these words mean. In Italy, it is all about blood, family, where you come from. I'm asked where I am from. I'm from nowhere; I always was, but now I am happy knowing it.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
It's hard to think of myself as an American, and yet I am not from India, a place where I was not born and where I have never lived.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
I find it really liberating to be in a place where I am a foreigner in every way. I've lived with this all my life - this divide, this bifurcation. And in Italy, I don't feel it. There's none of that tension, only the expectation I place on myself to speak the language well. I find it relaxing. Something drops away, and I observe.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
When I write in Italian - this is just the metaphor that came to me immediately, and I really think this is what it is - I feel like I'm writing with my left hand. Because of that weakness, there is this enormous freedom that comes with it.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
Identity has been such an explosive territory for me... so hard, so painful at times.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
I wish more Italian literature were translated and read in English. I've discovered so many extraordinary and diverse writers: Lalla Romano, Carlo Cassola. Beppe Fenoglio, Giorgio Manganelli, just to name a few.
Quote by -Jhumpa Lahiri
We have enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there's junk food and also junk love.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
I think most people know when they're in a toxic relationship - it requires an enormous amount of effort to keep it going, and you don't get what you want from it.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
Make a list of all the people in your life, and rate them in terms of energy in, energy out. Is there anyone in your life right now who is blocking your love quest?
Quote by -Joanna Coles
I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also sent it to the Queen of England.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
One of the things about being online is it's hard to forget people, so it's very easy to stalk an ex, it's very easy to follow what people are doing. It's almost impossible to forget them.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
Get out there and meet people, and that will lead to meeting other people. Look around; see if there's anyone hiding in plain sight. There may be friends that become more than friends.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
It's really important to be surrounded by people who are going to lift you up.
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Love and food are very similar in many ways. We can't survive without them, and they bring us great joy, and just as there is junk food, and you can become obese, there's also junk love.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
Dating apps are brilliant for expanding your actual social network, which leads you to meet other people.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
I have never had an unsupportive female boss. I've had several female bosses. They've all been super supportive.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
I grew up in the north of England - 200 miles north of London, in a relatively unsophisticated place. And I craved magazines as a way of finding out about the future, about the life that I wanted.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
I was a member of the young liberals, the young conservatives, and young Labour, according to who gave the best parties.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
As I've gotten older, I've become much more effective at seeking and accepting help and bringing other people into the discussion. You start to understand that you can't control or fix everything on your own.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
'Marie Claire' is one of those magazines that doesn't feel as well known as it should be.
Quote by -Joanna Coles