What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture. (Salman Rushdie)

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

Salman Rushdie

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