Salman Rushdie Quotes

Even though I don't write about things that come from my life because I'm lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that's really what being a writer is, probably.

I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me.

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Most everything that happens to me in any significant sense finds its way into my fiction.

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.

Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

I have a really good idea for a novel and would like to just kind of try my hand at fiction. I'm starting to kind of get a really good body of work going from a literary standpoint. As long as the audience is there, man, I'll keep cranking them out.

Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.

I write what's given me to write.

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.

I don't know how I do it, but I've written about everything. I've written about my shoes.

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

I loved writing the Spellman novels, but I never had any plan to only write in one genre.

It really helped me as a writer to understand how other writers think.

My writing did turn out to be quite intact, as it has all my experiences gathered at one place.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.