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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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
These are some quotes by German author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Novelist, who lived between May 7, 1927 and April 3, 2013.
Quotes by 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 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.
