Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In my family we've always found the world's air hard to breathe; we arrive hoping for somewhere better.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Your whole picture of the world broke," he said, "and you felt like you had gone mad." "Yes." "And I didn't even… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I'll drink some wine, and then, like a latter-day Van Winkle, I'll lay me down upon this graven stone, lay my head… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This was what was left of a human individual when you took away his home,his family, his friends, his city, his country,his… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Family history, of course, has its proper dietary laws. One is supposed to swallow and digest only the permitted parts of it,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Such were the factors that detached Ormus Cama from the ordinary ties of family life. The ties that strangle us, which we… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“People retreated behind their front doors into the hidden zone of their private, family worlds and when outsiders asked how things were… — 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
Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, 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 was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed… — 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 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
