The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
Salman RushdieI seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
Salman RushdieI do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
Salman RushdieAs a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
Salman Rushdie