3rd July 2016 | for Creatives | writing, solitude of creating, value the art, Salman Rushdie |
"What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy."
"I wish all writers realized that agents, publishers, book doctors, vanity presses, and how-to seminars, have a cost attached to them—sometimes a very high cost—with zero guarantees. You can be a writer, and have writer be a part of your identity, without any of them."
"There are plenty of places that are built on the business model of exploiting writers by not paying them. Are you going to let them do that to you?"
"You've got to protect your voice and your vision from everybody, really. Even the best-intentioned editors. And I mean, I love my editor; I've been with Vicky Wilson for over 35 years. She's wonderful, and her remarks on the finished manuscript are always terrific. But I don't go to her to discuss a germinating idea."
"Writing makes you more alive to your surroundings and, since the main ingredient of living—though you might not think so to look at most human beings—is to be alive, this is quite a worthwhile by-product of writing."
"The longer I write the more aware I am of the privacy of the endeavor."
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