Kind Quotes by Salman Rushdie

What kind of a god is it that's upset by a cartoon in Danish?

— Salman Rushdie

What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

— Salman Rushdie

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

— Salman Rushdie

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

— Salman Rushdie

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible…

— Salman Rushdie

Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get…

— Salman Rushdie

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that…

— Salman Rushdie

Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming…

— Salman Rushdie

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the…

— Salman Rushdie

A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face…

— Salman Rushdie

Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that…

— Salman Rushdie

What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a…

— Salman Rushdie

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to…

— Salman Rushdie

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

There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing.…

— Salman Rushdie

I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you…

— Salman Rushdie

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people…

— Salman Rushdie

I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to…

— Salman Rushdie

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates…

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A…

— Salman Rushdie

It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do…

— Salman Rushdie

You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they…

— Salman Rushdie

I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front.…

— Salman Rushdie

As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before…

— Salman Rushdie

The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that…

— Salman Rushdie

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of…

— Salman Rushdie

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

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the…

— Salman Rushdie

I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books…

— Salman Rushdie

People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many…

— Salman Rushdie