salman rushdie
Salman Rushdie's Literary Inspirations
The author of "The Eleventh Hour" looks back on a few works--by Mikhail Bulgakov, Franz Kafka, Voltaire, and E. M. Forster--that have helped him craft his own. Salman Rushdie prefers not to immerse himself in other people's writing when he is working on his own. "When I'm writing fiction, I tend not to read fiction. I actually don't want other people's voices to sneak into my head," Rushdie said recently. That's not to say that other writers' books aren't an important part of his process--posing questions, providing instruction, and offering models of characters.
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