WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:31:59 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg subject matter – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Rushdie, Salman -- Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York City https://wist.info/rushdie-salman/84768/ https://wist.info/rushdie-salman/84768/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:16:09 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=84768 The creative act requires not only freedom but also this assumption of freedom. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. If he is afraid of the consequences of his choice of subject or of his manner of treatment of it, then his choices will not be determined by his talent, but by fear. If we are not confident of our freedom, then we are not free.

rushdie - the creative act requires not only freedom but also this assumption of freedom - wist.info quote


Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) Indian novelist
Speech (2012-05-06), Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture, PEN World Voices Festival, New York City

Printed as an essay (2012-05-11), "On Censorship," The New Yorker magazine. ]]> https://wist.info/rushdie-salman/84768/feed/ 0 84768