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Salman Rushdie Quotes about Writing - Page 2

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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 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?

Book, Writing, Years

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Writing, Drawing, People

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Writing, Islam, Fiction

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.

Book, Writing, Character

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

Writing, Boys, Cities

"Manhattan transfer". Interview with D.T. Max, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2000.

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

Book, Writing, Needs

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

Writing, Character, Men

"Salman Rushdie says TV dramas comparable to novels" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

Writing, Want, Stuff

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

Book, Writing, World

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

Writing, Trying, Strive

Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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.

Running, Writing, Eye

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Baby, Pain, Writing

I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.

Writing, Character, Novel

The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

Writing, Thinking, Historical

Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

Writing, People, Forgiving

Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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.

Writing, People, Kind

I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

New York, Writing, Years

The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.

Writing, People, Attention

Source: pen.org

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

Writing, Trying, Novel

Source: brightestyoungthings.com

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

Writing, Stories, Want

Source: www.teachingbooks.net

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

Writing, Trying, Honest

Source: www.teachingbooks.net

I have a general feeling that writers and artists who are in this peculiar situation, of being a persecuted artist, all anyone ever asks about is the persecution. It may well be that's the last thing in the world they want to talk about. There were many years in which every journalist in the world wanted to talk to me, but nobody wanted to talk to me about my work. That felt deeply frustrating because I felt there was an attempt to stifle me as an artist. The best revenge I could have was to write.

Revenge, Writing, Artist

Source: pen.org

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.

Moving, Writing, Emotional

Source: www.cnn.com

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.

Character, Writing, Thinking

Source: bigthink.com

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