In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
