Salman Rushdie on Creativity and Criticism
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And all the time you do it– which could be many years, and in my case, three times it’s taken five years to write a book– all that time, it feels like something that is just privately yours, and nobody else’s. If I give you a book to read, my view is, why don’t you read that, and once you’ve read it, let’s talk about it. And I’ve always thought that the only books worth writing are books of that sort.