Phrase by 'Ruth Prawer Jhabvala'
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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 place or want to be entirely identified with the society you're living in.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German NovelistYou , Remember , Society , Place
I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German NovelistEducation , I Am , Weak , English
Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German NovelistWay , Women , Nature , Tired
I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like that.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German NovelistPeople , Live , Women , Artist
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.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German NovelistSee , Never , Thought , Film
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 what they've done, you don't feel possessive about it in any way.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German NovelistYou , People , Time , Grateful
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 easy to get used to someone else's poverty if you're living a middle-class life in it. But after a while, I saw it wasn't possible to accept it, and I also didn't want to.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German NovelistLife , You , People , Attitude
One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German NovelistJust , Way , Born , Choose
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 books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German NovelistFriends , Never , Isolation , Loneliness
It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.
Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - German NovelistYou , Words , Good , Down
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