I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' … - Jhumpa Lahiri

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Jhumpa Lahiri

I always think first about the nature of the story. When I had the idea for 'The Namesake,' I felt that it had to be a novel - it couldn't work as a story.

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I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

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And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

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I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

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

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