Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
Salman Rushdie
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
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