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
They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You… — 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
![“The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b8c/salman-rushdie-153_bars_the-beautiful-came-to-this-city-hollywoo_2510447.jpg)
