Allow writers to create characters outside of their own experience

*Salman Rushdie: allow writers to create characters outside of their own experience.* *"If we’re in a world where only women can write about women and only people from India can write about people from India and only straight people can write about straight people … then that’s the death of the art," the novelist said, according to the Times.* Or, at the very least, it means no story can have both men and women in it.