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.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the risk and hope inherent in the creative process of writing.
In this quote, Salman Rushdie articulates the inherent gamble involved in creating literature: the writer invests effort into crafting their best and most authentic work while simultaneously releasing it to the world, seeking validation and connection with the audience. This act of sharing one's truth is filled with vulnerability, as the writer hopes for positive reception and meaningful engagement from others.
In practice
In a literary workshop to encourage sharing original works.
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.
We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night.
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably results in a physical reaction. Eventually the proper vibration for every person will be found and utilized.
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