Pico Iyer Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger

  Pico Iyer

  Writing, Parent, Anomalies

• You rebel against your parents until you become them. One day you look in the mirror and you see your father's face.

  Pico Iyer

  Father, Mirrors, Parent

• I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. 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.

  Pico Iyer

  Running, Father, Home

  "Writer Pico Iyer". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. February 17, 2012.

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