Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
Salman RushdieCertainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
Salman RushdieWhen 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 RushdieAs though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.
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