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
Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike . — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up… — 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 suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought… — 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