Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a… — 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
Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books… — 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
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 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
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — 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
