And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which… — 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
The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned… — 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
