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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just persevere. That feels brave to me: deciding that I'm going to damn well be this person that I've set my heart on being.
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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 read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
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There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives.
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The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.
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I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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In the cookie of life, friends are the chocolate chips.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?
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It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.
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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 got.
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That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
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In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
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If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not what it's for.
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I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
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