Sunday, June 16, 2024

Jhumpa Lahiri, on writing:


It is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time.
To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions.
To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

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