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Pico Iyer

Indian Writer

Born: Feb 11, 1957

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It takes 25 minutes to recover from a phone call or an e-mail, researchers have found, and yet the average person receives such an interruption every 11 minutes. Which means that we're never caught up; we're always out of breath, running behind. Pico Iyer

Phone Breath Every Phone Call Out Running Minutes Recover Never Takes Call Always Caught Up Person Behind Which Average Average Person Means Researchers Found Receives Interruption

In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night. Pico Iyer

You Book Dark Live Every Other Our Vancouver Global County Read Orange Orange County Lit Stores After Places Across Body Among Brightly Streets Sydney Every Night Night

American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams. Pico Iyer

Dreams Seen Those Strongest Only America Hearts American Who

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug. Pico Iyer

Desperate Ways Unplug Seem More Us Connect Many

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

Daily Experience Writing World Try Care Sense Believe Corners Otherwise Out Find Darker About My Self Through Self Never Stepping Most Mess Make Sort Sure How Train While Daily Experience Deeply

People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects. Pico Iyer

Life Day Me People Speak Word My Life Say Ancestry One Day India One Word Percent Insofar More Except Absolutely Never Come Does Always Dialects Blood Than Expecting Where Asking Even Lived Right

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be. Pico Iyer

Home Me You Travel Soul Soil Somebody Think Say About More More And More Could Songs Piece Friends Than Closest Closest Friends Happen Wherever Ask Us Really Your Sweetheart Less Suddenly

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world. Pico Iyer

Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do. Pico Iyer

People Charisma Short Places Much

If we want to talk about Gross Natural Product, we have to talk about the King of Bhutan's index of Gross National Happiness, too. Certainly I have found, as many travellers before me, that people in the poorest places are often the readiest to shower me, from an affluent country, with hospitality and kindness. Pico Iyer

Happiness Kindness Me Natural People King Country National Before Too About Hospitality Talk Affluent Often Want Places Poorest Product Gross Certainly Shower Many Found Travellers

The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month. Pico Iyer

Day Girl Every Teenager Month Though Sacramento Hours Messages Text Handle American Sends Average Average American Receives

My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible. Pico Iyer

Christmas Myself Me Travel World Year Air Air Travel Possible See Take Open California How Sheltered How Much Up Places Japan Far Much Each Each Year Present

When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny, and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with. Of course, as the years go on, we come to find that we become our parents. Pico Iyer

Home You Parents Become Own Our Define Destiny Kids Ourselves Running Find Running Away Individuality Come Course Making Go Years Up Grew Means Your Away Actually Imagine

I think writing is really about a journey of understanding. So you take something that seems very far away, and the more you write about it, the more you travel into it, and you see it from within. Pico Iyer

Journey You Travel Writing Understanding Think See About Seems Something More Write Take Within Very Far Far Away Really Away

I think at this point I only write books about questions I really want to figure out. They're indulgences, essentially. I think, 'What would I like to spend five years really thinking about? What could I gain from thinking about for five years?' Pico Iyer

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