Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn… — 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
The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the… — 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