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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West. (Salman Rushdie)
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. View quote
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It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. View quote
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated. View quote
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable. View quote
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot. View quote
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue. View quote
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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder. View quote
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. View quote
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young. View quote
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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits. (Salman Rushdie)
The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution. View quote
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Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it. View quote
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Cruelty is not a literary value. View quote
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I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year. View quote
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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like. View quote
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions. View quote
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny. View quote
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given. View quote
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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us. View quote
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans. (Salman Rushdie)
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. View quote
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people. View quote
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. View quote
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream. View quote
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