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I think, in a written novel, ...

I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.

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The difference between memoir...

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

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I've met the Dalai Lama brief...

I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.

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There is no such thing as per...

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.

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Friendships are the family we...

Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

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It is literature which for me...

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

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War used to be something you ...

War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

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The publishing of a book is a...

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

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At the height of the British ...

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.

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I never thought of myself as ...

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

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'The Satanic Verses' was deni...

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

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Every time you finish a book,...

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

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Many men start being friendly...

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

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In today's U.S., it's possibl...

In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.

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Bin Laden was born filthy ric...

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

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Like everybody else, I've had...

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

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I've been fascinated by Machi...

I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

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England in a way is lucky. It...

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

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Certainly, poverty and econom...

Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

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Anyone who reads my work will...

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

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