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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.
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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.
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
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I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.
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Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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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 to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
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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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Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
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The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
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