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.Salman Rushdie
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.Salman Rushdie
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.Salman Rushdie
If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.Salman Rushdie
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.Salman Rushdie
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'Salman Rushdie
