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It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political.

The writer will write in his or her words, but the readers, even when they are not reading you, will take it elsewhere entirely.

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Imagination makes us shape better stories, sure, but it also allows us to multiply possibilities.

Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.

A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie's novel 'Fury' earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn't share the...

For some members of the radical Left, particularly in the West, people in developing countries are an ideological abstraction, on whom fantasies of liberation are projected from a comfortable distance.

No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.

Muslim anger has, of course, been stoked by America's war in Iraq and by Israel's brutal policies toward Palestine and Lebanon.

In the way in which we are living in a much more explosive and more tension-filled society, a society that is driven with more and more contradictions, it is but unavoidable that some of this will also come into cinema....

Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any organized politics.

Neither the writer nor the reader can save the world by themselves. Or escape it entirely.

I have to tell you, when I hear the song 'Jiya ho Bihar ke Lala,' I want to throw the history books out of the window and dance!

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

My past makes me an insider, but my profession makes me an outsider. A writer always stands outside to report on reality.

I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.

In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and how you present them. And that changes the nature of everything, and that is the attraction of writing...

My own personal conviction is that if I were writing without thinking about how images or how journalism is creating a world for us, I would not be happy about it.

I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.

The lives of the young are so tumultuous.

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