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.
Salman RushdieI'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
Salman RushdieIn today's US, it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
Salman RushdieWhen people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which magic realism actually works is for the magic to be rooted in the real. It's both things. It's not just a fairytale moment. It's the surrealism that arises out of the real.
Salman Rushdie