The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout. — 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… — 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
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly… — 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
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — 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'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside… — 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
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our… — 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
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I… — 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
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
People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many… — 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
One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life,… — 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
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
“the art of the novel revealed anything, it was that human nature was the great constant, in any culture, in any place,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best… — 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
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got. — 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
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
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
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
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“said, think of life as a novel, let’s say a novel of four hundred pages, and then imagine how many pages in… — 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
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
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
When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call… — 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
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
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
