“OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of… — 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
