It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there?...And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come?… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Then a strange moment came, a moment of the kind that determines the fate of nations, because when a crowd loses its… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It is hard for a person of no faith like myself to comprehend the moment when faith dies in the human heart.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“From the moment their pact is made, that devil’s contract that will make neither of them happy, there’s no stopping them. At… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This was what was left of a human individual when you took away his home,his family, his friends, his city, his country,his… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million five hundred six, reducing me to specks… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Time passes. Big men dwindle, small men grow. This man shrinks into old age, those men’s reach grows longer. They can stretch… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Also – for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I was born in the city of Bombay ... once upon a time. No, that won't do, there's no getting away from… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Also, on account of the odd relationship between time and space, the people who do manage to time-jump sometimes space-jump at the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“During his illness he had spent every minute of consciousness calling upon God, every second of every minute. Ya Allah whose servant… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“What is heroism in our time? What is villainy? How much we have forgotten, if we don’t know the answer to such… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only… — 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
