Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -
I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
Salman Rushdie
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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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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.
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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.
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Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
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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.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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