Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
Salman RushdieWherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
Salman RushdieOne of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
Salman Rushdie