When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.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
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
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.Douglas Coupland
If you write fiction, you have to love your characters. It's like your family. You don't have to like them, but you have to love them.Douglas Coupland
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.Douglas Coupland
