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
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child? — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“many of us, as immigrants—or our parents or our grandparents—had chosen to leave our pasts behind just as the Goldens were now… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“If you are for Allah, I am for Al-Lat. And she doesn't believe your God when he recognizes her. Her opposition to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We are other than what we would have been if we had crossed the oceans, if or mothers and fathers had not… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpot… I had… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“and the incident of the Satanic verses in the early career of the Prophet, and the politics of Muhammad’s harem after his… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“And now, restored to the status of daughter in her own home, Amina began to feel the emotions of other people's food… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“…it is a matter of record that in our sorry age with its prejudice in favour of male children many poor families… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Rani, too, was perpetuating memories. Harappa the martyr, the demigod, lived on in his daughter's thoughts; but no two sets of memories… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I am your handiwork made flesh. You took beauty and created hideousness, and out of this monstrosity your child will be born… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“So Oz finally became home; the imagined world became the actual world, as it does for us all, because the truth is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — 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
