I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion'. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“For a long while I have believed – this is perhaps my version of Sir Darius Xerxes Cama’s belief in a fourth… — 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
