Jhumpa Lahiri

(27 votes)   I can't tell you exactly how I found it. It was just a process of writing a lot of stories and reading a lot of stories that I admired and just working and working until the sentences sounded right and I was satisfied with them.

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(11 votes)   There's obviously a message, or a moral, or something. I think that's good - but it's not something I actively think about, to be honest with you.

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(10 votes)   It's hard for me to talk about anything I'm doing at the moment. It's only after I finish something that I can actually describe it in words.

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(14 votes)   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.

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(12 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   At 6:30, which was when the national news began, my father raised the volume and adjusted the antennas. Usually I occupied myself with a book, but that night my father insisted that I pay attention.

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(11 votes)   Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

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(10 votes)   For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.

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(10 votes)   It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

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(10 votes)   The reactions haven't differed; the concerns have been different. When I read for a predominantly Indian audience, there are more questions that are based on issues of identity and representation.

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(9 votes)   As he watched, he had an immovable expression on his face, composed but alert, as if someone were giving him directions to an unknown destination.

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(9 votes)   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.

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(8 votes)   On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

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(8 votes)   Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

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(6 votes)   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.

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