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.
Salman RushdieA novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman RushdieI am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
Salman RushdieSometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
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.
Salman Rushdie