Jhumpa LahiriThinkers

The Book is there to let you to travel without moving an inch.

A Book's first sentence is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself.

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

Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive.

A Pet name is a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. It is a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Reading is an act intended to let to travel without moving an inch.

A Writer is one who must take the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me".

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