About Quote by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and…

— Daniel Alarcon

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I…

— Alan Bradley

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later…

— Sharon Creech

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about…

— Derek Walcott

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

— James Payn

From my earliest days, reading was my passion, and at Cambridge, where I studied English literature, my intellectual life deepened and grew.

— Miriam Margolyes

It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

— V. S. Pritchett

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to…

— Tracy Chevalier

So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a…

— Paul Theroux

I sometimes feel like a British writer more so than I feel like an American writer. But I think that has to do with…

— Claire Messud