If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can. — 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
You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end. — 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
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It seems to me it's perfectly possible to vehemently disagree with a piece of work and to say that it's offensive and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you were standing next to the prophet on the mountain, would you have seen the archangel? And my answer to that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the… — 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… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care… — 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
Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and… — 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
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
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
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
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
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
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
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
“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
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
