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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.

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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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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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is good. There will be time for us all to be quiet when we are safely dead.
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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.
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A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.
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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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