I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.
From Salman Rushdie
I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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