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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.Collection: Salman
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.Collection: Salman
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.Collection: Salman
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.Collection: Salman
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.Collection: Salman
Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.Collection: Salman
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.Collection: Salman
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.Collection: Salman
Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.Collection: Salman
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.Collection: Salman
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.Collection: Salman
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.Collection: Salman
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.Collection: Salman
My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.Collection: Salman
The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.Collection: Salman
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.Collection: Salman
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.Collection: Salman
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.Collection: Salman
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.Collection: Salman
I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.Collection: Salman
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.Collection: Salman
When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.Collection: Salman
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'Collection: Salman
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.Collection: Salman
Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.Collection: Salman
The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.Collection: Salman
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.Collection: Salman
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems redundant to make a lot of noise about something when, in fact, there it is. But if someone tries to remove it, it becomes important for you to formulate your own defenses of it.Collection: Salman
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.Collection: Salman
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.Collection: Salman
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.Collection: Salman
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.Collection: Salman
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.Collection: Salman
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.Collection: Salman
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.Collection: Salman
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.Collection: Salman
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.Collection: Salman
You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.Collection: Salman
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.Collection: Salman
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.Collection: Salman
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.Collection: Salman
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.Collection: Salman
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.Collection: Salman
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.Collection: Salman
I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.Collection: Salman
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.Collection: Salman
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.Collection: Salman
Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.Collection: Salman
The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.Collection: Salman