16 May, 2012

Salman Rushdie's PEN World Voices Lecture on Censorship : The New Yorker

Salman Rushdie's PEN World Voices Lecture on Censorship : The New Yorker: The creative act requires not only freedom but also this assumption of freedom. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. If he is afraid of the consequences of his choice of subject or of his manner of treatment of it, then his choices will not be determined by his talent, but by fear. If we are not confident of our freedom, then we are not free.