The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
Interpretation
Life's experiences can inspire storytelling that connects diverse places and cultures, often reflecting both harmony and conflict.
This quote by Salman Rushdie highlights how the events and accidents in one's life can shape their creative expression, particularly in storytelling. He emphasizes the challenge of encompassing various global influences within a narrative, as attempting to represent too many places may lead to a dilution of meaning, ultimately making the story feel directionless.
In practice
This quote can be used in a writing workshop to discuss the importance of personal experiences in crafting narratives.
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.
Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
faith without doubt is addiction
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.
Photography has not changed since its origin except in its technical aspects, which for me are not important.
I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.
If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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