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Writing Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars.…
- Until you know who you are you can’t write.
- A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
- Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
- When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
- All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
- 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 writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
- 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…
- If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word…
- In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part.…
- Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character…
- 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…
- When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't…
- When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've…
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