Jhumpa Lahiri
"Art is a much more mysterious process that is not fully in our control."
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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"It's important to recognize and to respect what it is to create something out of nothing—the challenge of it, the difficulties of it."
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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"Stories come out of living, and looking, and reacting, and observing and thinking. I can't explain what the source is. ... That's the experience of being alive and trying to render it coherent somehow."
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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"One always feels distance from a book, which I think is normal—by the time it's published and people start reading it and talking about it, it's all behind you."
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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"I think all art comes from that: It comes from struggle and search—and, you know, I don't think it's something that should come easily."
— Jhumpa Lahiri
"Writing grows out of reading, and has always grown out of reading."
— Jhumpa Lahiri
"That pure freedom you only have when you write your first book. No one was waiting for it. No one expected it; nobody knew I was doing it. Nobody cared. There was total indifference, which I think is so beautiful and healthy for the creative process, to feel that nobody is listening and waiting and expecting."
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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