Book Quotes by Salman Rushdie

I grew up kissing books and bread.

— Salman Rushdie

A book is not completed till it's read.

— Salman Rushdie

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

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

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

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in…

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

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

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

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

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

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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly…

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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

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Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get…

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What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a…

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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying…

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I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And,…

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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I…

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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of…

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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…

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

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

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

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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.…

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

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

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People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many…

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I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books…

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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life,…

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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

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I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

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Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100…

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Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and…

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You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

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

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

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

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

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I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the…

— Salman Rushdie