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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously,… — Salman Rushdie
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live… — Salman Rushdie
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used… — Salman Rushdie
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to… — Salman Rushdie
I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result,… — Salman Rushdie
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one… — Salman Rushdie
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to… — Salman Rushdie
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. — John Ruskin
It took me the bulk of my twenties to write one book about a family of alligator wrestlers. Whereas somebody like Steve Martin is releasing… — Karen Russell
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally… — Richard Russo
I've never written nearly as much about place as people seem to think I do. I just write about class. — Richard Russo
When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again. — Richard Russo
While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that. — Jonathan Sacks
Cast aside any column about two subjects. It means the pundit chickened out on the hard decision about what to write about that day. — William Safire
I had a strong desire to write and some free time. — Francoise Sagan
I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it,… — Francoise Sagan
I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get… — Jerry Saltz
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and… — Jerry Saltz
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. — Carl Sandburg
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made… — Carl Sandburg

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