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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

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It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Novelist

Born: June 19th, 1947

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