“Only under extreme pressure can we change into that which it is in our most profound nature to become . . .… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Easily found, easily gathered, lives were the small change of this world, and if you lost a few, it didn't matter; there… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...for those who value stability, who fear transience, uncertainty, change, have erected a powerful system of stigmas and taboos against rootlessness, that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A change in direction was required. The story you finished was perhaps never the one you began. Yes! He would take charge… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to… — 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
