Thinking Quotes by Salman Rushdie

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

— Salman Rushdie

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

— Salman Rushdie

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.

— Salman Rushdie

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

— Salman Rushdie

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

— Salman Rushdie

I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.

— Salman Rushdie

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

— Salman Rushdie

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie

I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are…

— 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

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest…

— Salman Rushdie

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up…

— Salman Rushdie

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,…

— Salman Rushdie

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you…

— Salman Rushdie

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside…

— Salman Rushdie

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has…

— 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

In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part,…

— Salman Rushdie

I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing…

— Salman Rushdie

I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What…

— Salman Rushdie

My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie.…

— Salman Rushdie

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent…

— Salman Rushdie

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I…

— Salman Rushdie

I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those…

— Salman Rushdie

Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned…

— Salman Rushdie

Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a…

— 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

One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what…

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth…

— Salman Rushdie

The lessons one learns at school are not always the ones the school thinks it's teaching.

— Salman Rushdie

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

— Salman Rushdie

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are…

— Salman Rushdie

What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those…

— Salman Rushdie

The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just…

— Salman Rushdie

I've been worrying about God a little bit lately... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it…

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't…

— Salman Rushdie

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's…

— Salman Rushdie

I don't think there really is much of a left in America, certainly by European standards even the left is quite right…

— Salman Rushdie

No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever…

— Salman Rushdie

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible…

— Salman Rushdie