Writer Quotes by Pico Iyer

The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing.

— Pico Iyer

A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.

— Pico Iyer

Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in…

— Pico Iyer

A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.

— Pico Iyer

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more…

— Pico Iyer

Writing reminds you of how much there is in your life that stands outside your explanations. In that way, it's almost a…

— Pico Iyer

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out…

— Pico Iyer

In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment…

— Pico Iyer

“It doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive…

— Pico Iyer

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And…

— Pico Iyer

As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important…

— Pico Iyer

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the…

— Pico Iyer

I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think,…

— Pico Iyer

What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all…

— Pico Iyer