“I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I...” — Jhumpa Lahiri Quote

“I think it's the small things, the smaller episodes and details that I linger on and try to draw meaning from, just personally.”

“I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.”

“I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two countries I really know. I never feel fully one way or the other.”

“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”

“I nitpick details.”

“After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.”