Changes Quote by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Perhaps I'm just fickle by nature and get tired of countries the way other women do of husbands or lovers.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala