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About Pico Iyer
English-born essayist and novelist
Pico Iyer is an English-born essayist and novelist known chiefly for his travel writing. He is best known for books about crossing cultures and for essays shaped by life between places. His work includes Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, and The Global Soul. He has also written for Time, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times, and his writing often returns to travel, identity, and cultural exchange.
More from Pico Iyer (100 quotes) →Other sayings from Pico Iyer
- “You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity…”Pico Iyer
- “We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of…”Pico Iyer
- “Everyone is a Wordsworth in certain moods, and every traveler seeks out places that every traveler has missed.”Pico Iyer
- “What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful…”Pico Iyer
Conversation: more sayings
- “We exist in this weirdly schizo culture, where sex is everywhere in the media, and yet, at the same time, you…”Mary Roach
- “When I was 17, I met many artists, and it started to become this conversation with artists out of which all o…”Hans-Ulrich Obrist
- “More than happiness or joy or lower blood pressure, the practice of God’s presence gives us meaning. Through…”David Paul Kirkpatrick
Happiness: more sayings
- “I started doing runway work when I was 15, and I remember meeting a model who was 30 - ancient, for the indus…”Maye Musk
- “One of my realizations is that if you revel over joy, you're going to ache over pain and get killed over hurt…”Chuck Berry
- “As far as I’m concerned, eighteen holes of golf is the only happiness that money can buy. - Momofuku Ando”Andy Raskin
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Books by Pico Iyer
The Open Road
2008
The Global Soul
2000
A Beginner's Guide to Japan
2019
Sun After Dark
2004
Cuba and the Night
1995