When i was a little boy, my parents told me that i would say to their friends when asked, what did i a do? You know, i didn't say, i wanted to be an astronaud you know, i said, i wanted to be a writer and, and, and. B really. A lot of people who are in love with the experience of being with a book, being inside a book as a reader, conceive of the desire to write the thing that they loved being insided. I think all you know is that it means i love books and, and to want to be aWriter is a completely different thing from being able to be a Writer -
For this archive episode from 2021, journalist and BBC News broadcaster Razia Iqbal is joined by the acclaimed author Salman Rushdie to discuss his cultural touchstones. The conversation focuses on topics such as his love of James Joyce, Bob Dylan and his affection for an amulet his father gave him as a young boy.
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