All SALMAN RUSHDIE Quotes about “Writing”

“Until you know who you are you canâ€™t write.”
“When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.”
“Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.”
“My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.”
“I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?”
“One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.”
“The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the award, the freedom rate is very high: a very high percentage of people who receive those awards are freed in the next six months to a year. The only weapon there is attention, but interestingly it works.”
“In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.”
“I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.”
“I didn't become a writer to write about me.”
“Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.”

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