You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
And at the end of the day, there was an attempt to suppress a book. The book wasn't suppressed. It's freely available… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."… — 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
