“I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the dis...” — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Quote

“I'm not interested in who am I. I'm interested in what's gone, the disinheritance, what I've been able to become or learn or fuse with or not fuse with. A certain freedom comes... I like it that way.”

“England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing the world of others... I loved them: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens... I adopted them passionately.”

“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 want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.”

“Trying to fuse a Jewish-Russian family with a Mormon family from Utah definitely is a challenge.”

“I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.”