Gets Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image “Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gets Interesting Life Lives Way Work Writers Writing Your
Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction. — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place. — Pierre Berton Copy Share Image
In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life. — Esther Forbes Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
When I started to be a writer, I was not going to run the risk of boring you. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
I believe writers should be able to write about anything - anything - but there is also a sense in which your lived experience… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When the dollar collapses, it's not doing it in a vacuum. If the dollar loses value, it's doing so relative to some other currency.… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
I'm just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we're sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets… — Gwen Stefani Copy Share Image
There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I'll answer anything... I'm brutally honest, actually, which gets me in trouble. — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
You've had some terrific print information that gets everybody's attention in this town. — Charlie Norwood Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
I don't know what it is about me that gets cast in specific roles. Some people would say, 'You're just a pretty face,' but… — Grace Park Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not comfortable in a Speedo! That's as uncomfortable as it gets! — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Maitre d's are at the financial spigot of the restaurant, meaning they control who gets in and who doesn't, but aside from that, they… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image