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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.
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Hell is other people's fantasies.
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Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading acts too much it becomes irritating to you listening to it.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer it's just to annoy you.
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A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
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You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
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We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
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