I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me …

- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

India always changes people, and I have been no exception

- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final …

- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Film is not like a book; it's not a writer's baby at all. So many people have put in their talent, by that time that you feel grateful for what they'…

- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You ta…

- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala