Writer Quote-1: Salman Rushdie on The Satanic Verses

I spent five years writing 'The Satanic Verses'. To have it hated and dismissed was terrible. I thought that if this is what you get, then why write? I might as well become a bus conductor. - Salman Rushdie, Novelist

Courtesy: The Week, April 20, 2008 ("Point Blank").

Grateful thanks to The Week.