Salman Rushdie’s Brush with Security

1st March 2008 with 3 Comments

Rushdie’s parting advice to aspiring writers was simple: “You have to sit down and not get up until you’ve written some stuff.”
“I guess there are people who can walk around and write,” he said. “But they’re called poets.”
PhillyCom reports on Rushdie’s visit to Widener University
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