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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.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#exactly #found #how #i #just

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#back #build #collection #feel #finished

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.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#book #even #i #interpreter #itself

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.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#exactly #found #how #i #just

I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#first #give #i #myself #number

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those stories and build on them. They seem very finished for me, so I don't feel like going back and dredging them up.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#back #build #collection #feel #finished

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.


Hedy Lamarr


#born #child #fairy #father #fire

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.


David Leavitt


#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.


Tanith Lee


#fairy #her #invention #lots #many

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.


Alfred Marshall


#enchanting #every #heroes #life #nobler






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