Salman Rushdie Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Stars, Writing

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Creation

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

• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Writing

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

• Until you know who you are you can’t write.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Knows, Who You Are

• When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Self, Best Self

  "'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2005.

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

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, People, Forgiving

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

• My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Horizon

• In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Demand

• Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Fighting, Trying

• The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Together, Different

• In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Thinking, Exception

  "'Everybody needs to get thicker skins'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2008.

• I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Book, Writing

• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Needs

• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Trying, Strive

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

• I didn't become a writer to write about me.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Revenge, Writing, Artist

  Source: pen.org

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

  Salman Rushdie

  Baby, Pain, Writing

• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  New York, Writing, Years

• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, World

• If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull your punches and second-guess yourself and not do things because you're worried, then don't write. Stay home and do something else.

  Salman Rushdie

  Home, Writing, Want

  Source: www.sfgate.com

• Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Voice, 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Islam, Fiction

• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Want, Stuff

• When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Thinking, Vanity

  Source: bigthink.com

• I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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