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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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- “There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Interne…”Pico Iyer
- “Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the…”Pico Iyer
- “One of the strange laws of the contemplative life," Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed ou…”Pico Iyer
- “The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed…”Pico Iyer
Wind: more sayings
- “Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again, as…”Thomas Wolfe
- “You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind…”Michael Caine
- “To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like…”Andrew Sean Greer
Travel: more sayings
- “I assisted Bobby Houghton at Halmstads, and we were both just under 30. We'd say, 'Wouldn't it be great to do…”Roy Hodgson
- “Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extr…”Roman Coppola
- “...the act of remembering is imagined as a real act, that is, as a physical act: as walking...the means of re…”Rebecca Solnit
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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