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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala


German
May 7, 1927
Novelist
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One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.


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The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.


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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.
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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.
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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 wasn't England so much as what went before.
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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.
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I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.
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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.
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