Books Quotes by Salman Rushdie

“Where they burn books they will in the end burn people too.”

— Salman Rushdie

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

— Salman Rushdie

I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

— Salman Rushdie

I grew up kissing books and bread.

— Salman Rushdie

A book is not completed till it's read.

— Salman Rushdie

“The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.”

— Salman Rushdie

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

— Salman Rushdie

“Literature is disputed territory.”

— Salman Rushdie

The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

— Salman Rushdie

It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.

— Salman Rushdie

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

— Salman Rushdie

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

— Salman Rushdie

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to…

— Salman Rushdie

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

— Salman Rushdie

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

— Salman Rushdie

“said, think of life as a novel, let’s say a novel of four hundred pages, and then imagine how many pages in…

— Salman Rushdie

And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available…

— Salman Rushdie

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see.…

— Salman Rushdie

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call…

— Salman Rushdie

The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a…

— Salman Rushdie

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my…

— Salman Rushdie

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to…

— Salman Rushdie

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike…

— Salman Rushdie

The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about…

— Salman Rushdie

In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of…

— Salman Rushdie

...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the…

— Salman Rushdie

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China;…

— Salman Rushdie

I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you…

— Salman Rushdie

I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So,…

— Salman Rushdie

A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed…

— Salman Rushdie

“The Pakistani film International Gorillay (International guerillas), produced by Sajjad Gul, told the story of a group of local heroes - of…

— Salman Rushdie

It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do…

— Salman Rushdie

“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have…

— Salman Rushdie

“More seriously-and this is probably why there has been a lot of garbage talked about a lost generation-it was easy to see,…

— Salman Rushdie

“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are…

— Salman Rushdie

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

— Salman Rushdie

“OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.”

— Salman Rushdie

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have…

— Salman Rushdie