Salman Rushdie Discusses His Return to Fiction After Attack and New Book 'The Eleventh Hour'

The Return to Fiction

• ✍️ Salman Rushdie describes how, after writing his memoir 'Knife,' he felt a door open in his head, allowing him to re-enter the world of fiction.
• 💡 Initially, the story that became 'The Eleventh Hour' was not intended to be a ghost story.

Writing Philosophy

• 🎯 Rushdie advises students to 'write what you know' only if what they know is genuinely interesting.
• 🚀 Otherwise, he encourages them to 'go find something out' and write about that.

Artistic Legacy

• 💭 A common reflection for many, especially artists, is contemplating one's life's worth and whether it was trivial or forgettable.
• 🌟 For writers like Rushdie, there is the added question of whether their work will endure beyond their own survival.