My CommonPlace

In an article about Salman Rushdie in a New York Times Sunday Arts and Leisure section about the time his novel The Enchantress of Florence came out,  he was quoted as saying, “There’s a writing self which is not quite your ordinary social self and which you don’t really have access to except at the moment when you’re writing, and certainly in my view, I think of that as my best self …. To be able to be that person feels good; it feels better than anything else.”