Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.


Quoted in the Observer, 19 February 1989

Salman Rushdie Quotes

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.