Pico Iyer Quotes

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: February 11, 1957

Topics

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Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

Jesse Ventura

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I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.

Andrew Bird

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'Affinity' is beautiful and intense, with no laughs. It's a rather delicate and emotional love story, with a spooky element.

Andrew Davies

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I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

Angela Bassett

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Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

Jean Paul

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'The Secret Life of Bees' was my first novel, so I had no process. I was flying by the seat of my pants, as they say, trying to understand how I, as a novelist, would work with story.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

Ry Cooder

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The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Haiti has changed a lot.

Michel Martelly

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It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

Luc Besson

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Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.

Josh Bowman

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I had this epiphany that I like the interaction with people. I wanted to make things happen at a grassroots level.

Diane Paulus

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