[Vwoolf] VW and Salman Rushdie

[Stuart N. Clarke]

‘The New Yorker was launched in 1925 by Harold Ross on a very tight budget. The magazine's finances were so bad that even the simplest equipment was in short supply. One day, Editor Harold Ross complained to Dorothy [Parker] for being late on a story assignment. Her reply? "Someone else was using the pencil."’


From: Mark Hussey via Vwoolf 
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2022 11:42 PM
To: Loflin, Christine ; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] VW and Salman Rushdie

I think Woolf made a very similar point. And pencils never crash or need charging!! Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS On Sunday, August 21, 2022, 6: 09 PM, Loflin, Christine via Vwoolf <vwoolf@ lists. osu. edu> wrote: Dear Woolfians, I think Woolf made a very similar point. And pencils never crash or need charging!!


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On Sunday, August 21, 2022, 6:09 PM, Loflin, Christine via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

  Dear Woolfians, I once had the pleasure of interviewing Salman Rushdie at my college, so I asked him, "Virginia Woolf says that a writer needs a room of her own and 500 pounds a year; what do you think a writer needs?" and Rushdie 
  Dear Woolfians,

  I once had the pleasure of interviewing Salman Rushdie at my college, so I asked him, "Virginia Woolf says that a writer needs a room of her own and 500 pounds a year; what do you think a writer needs?" and Rushdie said "a pencil." 

  He explained that he meant to emphasize that writers can write anywhere, even in prison; photographers, musicians, other artists can't do that. While Woolf was advocating for writers to have privacy and freedom, Rushdie wanted to say that one can always write, one can't be prevented from writing.

  If you have a pencil.

  Cheers,
  Christine


  Christine Loflin
  Oxford College of Emory University
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