It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
Salman RushdieThe First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
Salman RushdieWhen you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
Salman RushdieThose who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
Salman RushdieWhen you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.
Salman Rushdie