optimism is a disease

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.

One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.