One doesn't choose to become a writer. One is just born that way.

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• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala:

  I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for m

• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala:

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

• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala:

  England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up fo

• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala:

  It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean,

• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala:

  I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a

• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala:

  Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything el

• Evita Peron:

  I am my own woman.

• Evita Peron:

  I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

• Evita Peron:

  I will come again, and I will be millions.

• Evita Peron:

  If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.