Once the god-squaddie supreme, she was now possessed of…

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

— Salman Rushdie

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

— Salman Rushdie

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

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

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

“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.”

— Salman Rushdie

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

— Salman Rushdie

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

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

— Salman Rushdie

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

“...proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.”

— Salman Rushdie

“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

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.…

— Salman Rushdie

I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.

— Salman Rushdie

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