“And my grandfather... was forever knocked into that middle place, unable to worship a God in whose existence he could not wholly… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Being God's postman is no fun, yar. Butbutbut: God isn't in this picture. God knows whose postman I've been.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“What sort of god could be excused the actions of his followers? Didn’t it, in a way, infantilise the deity to say… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“During his illness he had spent every minute of consciousness calling upon God, every second of every minute. Ya Allah whose servant… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God. — 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
