self-discovery Quotes

Headwise, I always kind of knew that everyone goes grey in our family very early - and I was like, it works for me. I started growing my beard, and it changes the shape of your skull and your face, and I started seeing my mother's side of the family in myself for the first time.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

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.

Our lives teach us who we are.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

I'm definitely post-something.

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.