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Writer Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return…
- One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
- I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I…
- No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding…
- I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to…
- In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
- In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
- Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
- 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 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,…
- One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew…
- This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems,…
- When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a…
- What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
- I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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