Salman Rushdie Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. June 19, 1947
Birthday: June 19
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
topic: Writing, People, Kind, Flashback, Compression
