When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.Salman Rushdie
The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.Salman Rushdie
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.Salman Rushdie
It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.Douglas Coupland
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.Douglas Coupland
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.Oscar Wilde
To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.Bill Gates
A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.Ernest Hemingway
