“
… It is hard enough to write at one’s best without wearing a hundred pounds on one’s back each day, but such is your condition, and if I were a man who believed that prayer was productive of results, I might wish to send some sort of vigor and encouragement to you, for if you can transcend this situation, more difficult than any of us have known, if you can come up with a major piece of literary work, then you will rejuvenate all of us, and literature, to that degree, will flower.
- Norman Mailer to Salman Rushdie in support of The Satanic Verses.
(Source: lettersofnote.com)
-
gbmcclure liked this
-
thephilologist liked this
-
oliveryeh posted this
