I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“More seriously-and this is probably why there has been a lot of garbage talked about a lost generation-it was easy to see,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the… — 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
Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
