
Salman Rushdie on Creativity and Criticism
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Writing a Novel
When i'm writing a book, it's much more exhilarating and enjoyable than publishing a book. The joy of reading is that communion between the reader's imagination and the writer's imagination. Time goes by, dreading the moments of publication more and moreand why is that? Well, partly it's just because what's expected of you. And also, there's something else about the way in which books are published. When i write a book I want to be out of the picture. If i give you a book to read, my idea is, why don't you read that? And once you read it, thats talk about it.
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