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Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and fra...more

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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

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[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep br...more

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Until you know who you are you can’t write.

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OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.

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When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certa...more

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Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always car...more

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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be...more

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Realism can break a writer's heart.