Salman Rushdie: The One Thing You Can't Teach about Writing (Sept. 16, 2015) | Charlie Rose

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  • "Every exceptional writer has some very personal relationship with the English language." Salman Rushdie talks to Charlie Rose about what can -- and can't -- be taught about writing. His latest novel, "Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights" is out now. The full interview airs Sept. 16, 2015 on PBS. Visit www.charlierose.com for more.

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  • @brotheraugustine
    @brotheraugustine 4 года назад +108

    Rose should let his guests speak instead of interrupting.

    • @onechew
      @onechew 3 года назад +5

      I really thought the same haha

    • @onechew
      @onechew 3 года назад +8

      @JohnnyMavers He asked good questions but bad timing. He kept cutting in when Salman Rushdie was talking. He could've waited to ask those questions until Salman Rushdie finished what he wanted to talk.

    • @christopherthorpe6749
      @christopherthorpe6749 9 месяцев назад +1

      Correct - not least because his interjections are so utterly banal

    • @artieash6671
      @artieash6671 3 месяца назад

      your advice is a day late and a dollar short... he has been gone for years ...since "me too" dispensed with him

  • @ramdularsingh1435
    @ramdularsingh1435 Год назад +24

    Salman Rushdie all the way deserves the Nobel Prize for Literature. So the Nobel Committee must not delay any longer in awarding this creative genius for his contribution to the Literature
    the world enjoys today. It's urgent now.

  • @yuliang816
    @yuliang816 3 года назад +24

    I agree. There are things that cannot be taught about great writers.

  • @ImHaydenHudson
    @ImHaydenHudson 9 лет назад +37

    This is what made Pratchett particularly special. Not the worlds greatest writer, but you could pick his characters from a single line of dialogue. R.I.P.

  • @BookClubDisaster
    @BookClubDisaster Год назад +8

    Most interesting is the part about his mind working differently when he writes. I notice the same. I've often felt I have zero to say but then I start writing and think, "Oh, where did that come from?".

  • @anuranbhattacharya9938
    @anuranbhattacharya9938 4 года назад +14

    The trouble these days that what can be taught is abundant and what can't be taught is lacking too much.

  • @FourTwentyIVXX
    @FourTwentyIVXX 9 лет назад +34

    "so you want to be a writer?"

  • @RohitPant04
    @RohitPant04 2 года назад +8

    Very well put up. The articulation that's reflected in the writer's work is not always reflected in their speech. It's because of the different neuro circuitry involved in the two processes but it is something!

  • @prasantbanerjee8199
    @prasantbanerjee8199 2 года назад +5

    It is always a pleasure to listen to Salman Rushdie and to Charlie Rose - gentlemen both.

  • @shahilagh
    @shahilagh 4 года назад +23

    Why Charlie interrupts him? I get anxiety when ppl interrupt me

    • @MrK.A
      @MrK.A 3 года назад +3

      He's the worst interviewer I've come across. Interrupts and puts words in the guest's mouth.

  • @michaelmelling9333
    @michaelmelling9333 3 года назад +6

    Many years ago, I picked up one of his books and began thumbing through it and I began to feel sick right away because I saw that his writing was a million times better than mine could ever be.😟☹😥😫😫😫😫

  • @kengause9259
    @kengause9259 2 года назад +1

    Good point about how dialogue on the page and what comes out the author's mouth in everyday life is likely different. But the author, a good author, has a good ear.

  • @ashleygatewood
    @ashleygatewood 2 года назад +1

    "Relationship with the language"....or 'voice'. He is right about that.

  • @jorgeh71
    @jorgeh71 7 лет назад +15

    Hope my students find this video as interesting as I do.

    • @jessicadiaz2503
      @jessicadiaz2503 5 лет назад +2

      Same! I'm also gonna use it in class. :)

  • @sarojkumarsahoo2905
    @sarojkumarsahoo2905 2 года назад +3

    Time to give him Noble Prize

  • @vinm300
    @vinm300 3 года назад +4

    2:11 is he talkative or is he a close-mouthed man.
    "No, I like to talk".
    "Better and better, I'll tell you straight out sir, that I'm a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk. Now what will we talk about ?"
    "Shall we talk about the black bird ?"
    "By gad sir, you're the man for me".

  • @johnsylvester951
    @johnsylvester951 2 года назад +1

    I think you need to read James Joyce again .

  • @ellie-tk4jy
    @ellie-tk4jy 2 года назад +1

    Lol I think I'm the only person who finds Charlie arose amusing. I keep acidentally typing "arose" perhaps a Freudian slip. My favourite thing about Charlie Disrobe is that he interrupts a comment and looks as if he is thinking something extremely profound then says something so banal you wonder why he spoke.

  • @arc7818
    @arc7818 2 года назад +1

    I barely got to understand what the title of the video meant because Charlie kept interrupting the speaker right as he was getting to the point.

  • @thebestofmosdef
    @thebestofmosdef 6 лет назад +4

    Do you think he really liked the Sean Penn novel, or did he do the blurb as a favor?

  • @paulwarren3106
    @paulwarren3106 4 года назад +4

    Why doesn't the interviewer let him speak?

    • @ellie-tk4jy
      @ellie-tk4jy 2 года назад

      Because it's Charlie Rose. Or Charlie DisRobe as I like to call him. Salman is lucky he didn't get flashed at.

  • @r.s.9861
    @r.s.9861 2 года назад +1

    Legend!

  • @Beatz_by_Tp_the_don
    @Beatz_by_Tp_the_don Год назад +3

    bro looks like Stanley Kubrick

  • @ladybird491
    @ladybird491 3 года назад +2

    I am an exceptional writer and he is actually right. I don't write the way I talk to people either and my body is not in the present time at all, I am very much up in the sky, enlightenment. I never do heavy editing or fight with work to become great. I also have an obsession to understand life, people and all around me, I can stare and listen to things all day.

    • @mikehiebert6227
      @mikehiebert6227 3 года назад +15

      Anyone who proclaims they are great at something has not garnered the modesty and humbleness that suffering on the road to success provides.
      Not even Cormac McCarthy called himself an "exceptional writer".

    • @thebrushpainter
      @thebrushpainter 3 года назад +2

      @@mikehiebert6227 I think she meant "exceptional" as in "not typical"-- (not a native speaker).
      On the other hand, I AM an exceptional writer, I stare and think all day, and when I'm being exceptional I write and write away! Oh I'm an exceptional writer, and I live up in the sky, and when I'm no longer exceptional, I'll lay down and... eat some McDonalds!

    • @ellie-tk4jy
      @ellie-tk4jy 2 года назад

      You sound insufferable. Please don't talk about yourself like that again.

  • @douglasdickerson5184
    @douglasdickerson5184 Год назад +2

    💙💙💙

  • @salmanhyder1655
    @salmanhyder1655 3 года назад +1

    Wow ❤️

  • @NickDiasOuttaMyLeague
    @NickDiasOuttaMyLeague 2 года назад +2

    This is the one hiccup I have with guys like Aaron Sorkin and Quinten Tarantino.
    I LOVE their work… but all their characters tend to sound the same.

  • @Ma_Ba
    @Ma_Ba 5 лет назад +3

    Is dialogue more in the realm of the theater?

    • @Nautilus1972
      @Nautilus1972 4 года назад +2

      I believe so. Rushdie is talking bollocks here. A good writer does not necessarily write good dialogue, far from it usually. A playwright MUST.

  • @solusrex4034
    @solusrex4034 2 года назад +2

    I disagree. I think there's a close relationship in how a writer speaks and writes especially with regards to the rhythm and cadence. Writing is a much more polished and highly calibrated version of the writer's syntax and diction, however.

    • @ogkushbreath8607
      @ogkushbreath8607 Год назад +2

      Disagree all you want but youre wrong! Just listen to other writers being interviewed. Atwood, King, Sanderson. They talk NOTHING like anyone in their book. Ever

    • @solusrex4034
      @solusrex4034 Год назад +1

      @@ogkushbreath8607 In case you think all prominent writers think alike, here's a passage from "Despair" by Nabokov. 'As often happens with uneducated people, the tone of his letter was in complete disagreement with that of his usual conversation: his epistolary voice was a tremulous falsetto with lapses of eloquent huskiness whereas in real life he had a self-satisfied baritone sinking into a didactic bass.'

    • @ogkushbreath8607
      @ogkushbreath8607 Год назад

      @@solusrex4034 Not necessarily helpful using adjectives generally reserved for sound to represent prose, or the non-verbal thought or moral tendency, but I see what he meant in the passage.

  • @lokerkita9059
    @lokerkita9059 5 лет назад +4

    What kind of "relationship" is that?

  • @____uncompetative
    @____uncompetative 11 месяцев назад

    "Go to work on an egg." - Salman Rushdie

  • @lela_lela_
    @lela_lela_ Год назад

    Charlie Rose should NOT interfere too much. I listen to Salman, not the interviewer. Don't show off man!

  • @gondwanaman9362
    @gondwanaman9362 6 лет назад +1

    Wow

  • @maliceburgoyne495
    @maliceburgoyne495 6 лет назад +38

    Thank god Charlie Rose has been removed. The guy talks over his guests and interjects himself, his ego so often that most of his spots were unwatchable.

    • @SeanPFarley
      @SeanPFarley 5 лет назад +4

      You took the words out of my mouth. Always interrupting. It's infuriating.

    • @EmlynBoyle
      @EmlynBoyle 4 года назад +3

      Agreed. He kept interrupting SR and wouldn't let him finish a sentence.

    • @brianwinters9995
      @brianwinters9995 4 года назад +2

      Yes, thank God he's been removed and we can now have pointless sycophantic talk shows that do nothing but oink about things they don't know instead of a program that talks to intelligent writers about the writing process.

    • @FaarrOut
      @FaarrOut 3 года назад +1

      @@brianwinters9995 Wow, I ran out of breath reading that sentence. We are, after all, commenting on a video about “writing”, are we not?

    • @yvonneshanson1525
      @yvonneshanson1525 Год назад +1

      @Brian Winters if u think that the scope & flow of "his" show was due to his "intellect" & not to his bullied, harassed assistants & subordinates u must be really intellect challenged!..

  • @MarkDRoche-fk8sw
    @MarkDRoche-fk8sw 6 месяцев назад

    Less than a two and a half minute interview and Rose interrupted Rushdie at least three times in ways that kept us from finding out what Rushdie was saying. Horrible interviewing that was clearly not respecting, nor even listening all that much, to what Rushdie was saying.

  • @KhetaniMichael
    @KhetaniMichael 2 месяца назад

    Rose is soo pretentious!😂