Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 22 quotes by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, CBE (7 May 1927 – 3 April 2013) was a German-born British and American Booker prize-winning novelist, short story writer and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is perhaps best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, made up of director James Ivory and the late producer Ismail Merchant. Jhabvala wrote a dozen novels, 23 screenplays and eight collections of short stories and was... Read full biography of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala → 1 2 Ctrl → Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for... → 0 I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my... → 0 The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck. 0 I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse... → 0 Once a refugee, always a refugee. I can't ever remember not being all right wherever I was, but you don't give your whole allegiance to a... → 0 One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way. 0 First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude, too. It's terribly... → 0 India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous... → 0 I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves. 0 I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever. 0 Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers. 0 All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You... → 0 England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about my own experience, it... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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