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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.
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- “In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our live…”Pico Iyer
- “Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marke…”Pico Iyer
- “The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of tech…”Pico Iyer
- “It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earsho…”Pico Iyer
Reflections: more sayings
- “Drama school is really a forum for making a fool of yourself.”Toby Stephens
- “I danced six hours a day. My cross to bear is that my children have no interest in ballet. I think they could…”Jennifer Garner
- “I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new…”Nicholson Baker
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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