Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

“I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever.”

“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.”

“I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like that.”