I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
Salman Rushdie
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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... →
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
We all know the feeling of surrendering to the embedded biases of our devices. We let our cell phones ping us every time there's an incoming... →
Douglas Rushkoff
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
Dean Rusk
The best way to persuade people is with your ears - by listening to them.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our... →
John Ruskin
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as... →