Salman Rushdie

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469 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 13 Jun

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So the world, life is long and the world changes.

And despair is too easy.

It's much easier to think that the future can be made by us and it can be made in a better way.

And to work towards that.

And that's how I think.

And I also think the act of writing is an act which requires optimism.

You sit alone in a room, sometimes for years, just with you and your idea trying to make something in the hope that people will respond well to it.

And then you put it out in the world and you find out if people respond to it or not.

But to make it requires the hopefulness that it will find its readers and it will do well.

So writing is an act of optimism and very hard to do it without that fuel.

No, I'm looking forward to remedying it.

My idiocy remains intact at the moment.

Salman Rushdie.

I hear that she's very, very good.

I'm looking forward to reading it.

I'm okay, you know.

I mean, surprisingly.

But sometimes there are good surprises.

This was one.

I'm pretty much recovered.

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