“When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theore...” — Salman Rushdie Quote

“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.”

“If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.”

“A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”

“I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.”

“Nothing feels better than constructing a beautiful sentence.”

“'No' is an entire sentence in itself. No means no, and when somebody says it, you need to stop.”