An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair".... And has it really… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some… — 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
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
