Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
Salman RushdieWhen you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
Salman RushdieSometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
Salman Rushdie