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Write Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Until you know who you are you can’t write.
- When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
- I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
- I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
- I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
- In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
- Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
- The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
- In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
- Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
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