--- title: "30 Kind Quotes By Salman Rushdie" description: "30 Kind quotes by Salman Rushdie. Plus more from Salman Rushdie and more Kind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7a/salman-rushdie-153_fiction_once-you-get-that-instinct-for-the-ficti_474038.jpg" --- > [Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/once-you-get-that-instinct-for-the-fictiveness-the-fictionality-of/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7a/salman-rushdie-153_fiction_once-you-get-that-instinct-for-the-ficti_474038.jpg) > [What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/what-kind-of-christmas-present-would-jesus-ask-santa-for/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/salman-rushdie-153_christmas_what-kind-of-christmas-present-would-jes_2820026.jpg) > [What kind of a god is it that's upset by a cartoon in Danish?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/what-kind-of-a-god-is-it-that-s-upset-by-a-cartoon-in-danish/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e47/salman-rushdie-153_cartoon_what-kind-of-a-god-is-it-that-s-upset-by_3161734.jpg) > [Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/ignorantly-is-how-we-all-fall-in-love-for-it-is-a-kind-of-fall/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/150/salman-rushdie-153_cliffs_ignorantly-is-how-we-all-fall-in-love-fo_56755.jpg) > [I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-think-the-book-is-less-emotional-than-the-film-with-the-film-the/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f9f/salman-rushdie-153_book_i-think-the-book-is-less-emotional-than_2878796.jpg) > [A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/a-people-that-has-remained-convinced-of-its-greatness-and/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6c/salman-rushdie-153_believe_a-people-that-has-remained-convinced-of_3064885.jpg) > [I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-think-that-england-made-a-very-big-historical-mistake-to-allow/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02c/salman-rushdie-153_big_i-think-that-england-made-a-very-big-his_688993.jpg) > [Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/free-form-games-in-which-the-player-can-make-choices-about-what-the/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/887/salman-rushdie-153_choice_free-form-games-in-which-the-player-can_1766719.jpg) > [I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-believe-in-the-art-of-literature-i-believe-in-freedom-of-the/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f26/salman-rushdie-153_art_i-believe-in-the-art-of-literature-i-bel_161637.jpg) > [Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/very-often-people-who-actually-pick-up-a-book-of-mine-for-the-first/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/131/salman-rushdie-153_book_very-often-people-who-actually-pick-up-a_2575013.jpg) > [I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-think-if-we-wish-to-live-in-any-kind-of-a-moral-universe-we-must/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/164/salman-rushdie-153_crime_i-think-if-we-wish-to-live-in-any-kind-o_548789.jpg) > [People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/people-would-come-and-threaten-them-and-they-would-respond-by-putting/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7b/salman-rushdie-153_behinds_people-would-come-and-threaten-them-and_1232695.jpg) > [I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-think-the-business-of-writing-a-great-deal-of-it-is-the-business-of/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/46e/salman-rushdie-153_attention_i-think-the-business-of-writing-a-great_420997.jpg) > [I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-had-become-a-kind-of-information-magpie-gathering-to-myself-all/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/188/salman-rushdie-153_art_i-had-become-a-kind-of-information-magpi_2255455.jpg) > [The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-thing-about-literature-is-that-yes-there-are-kind-of-tides-of/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aee/salman-rushdie-153_books_the-thing-about-literature-is-that-yes-t_3211588.jpg) > [We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/we-live-in-an-age-where-the-rate-of-change-has-been-colossal-colossal/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9a/salman-rushdie-153_age_we-live-in-an-age-where-the-rate-of-chan_1022312.jpg) > [The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-rate-of-change-is-global-now-i-think-there-s-a-kind-of-mind-that/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/583/salman-rushdie-153_change_the-rate-of-change-is-global-now-i-think_859193.jpg) > [I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-have-never-really-thought-of-myself-as-a-writer-about-religion-and/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e0/salman-rushdie-153_happened_i-have-never-really-thought-of-myself-as_2657604.jpg) > [The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-thing-that-always-attracted-me-to-new-york-was-the-sense-of-being/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b57/salman-rushdie-153_bigs_the-thing-that-always-attracted-me-to-ne_1605092.jpg) > [You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/you-ve-got-a-generation-of-young-men-almost-all-are-young-men-in/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0a/salman-rushdie-153_anger_you-ve-got-a-generation-of-young-men-alm_1543181.jpg) > [It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/it-s-difficult-not-to-color-our-perception-of-author-s-product-with/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef1/salman-rushdie-153_20th-century_it-s-difficult-not-to-color-our-percepti_2104811.jpg) > [Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/sometimes-by-a-woodland-stream-he-watched-the-water-rush-over-the/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af8/salman-rushdie-153_bed_sometimes-by-a-woodland-stream-he-watche_11018.jpg) > [Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/question-what-is-the-opposite-of-faith-not-disbelief-too-final/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f4/salman-rushdie-153_belief_question-what-is-the-opposite-of-faith-n_414028.jpg) > [Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/memory-has-its-own-special-kind-it-selects-eliminates-alters/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2e/salman-rushdie-153_ends_memory-has-its-own-special-kind-it-selec_1702034.jpg) > [As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/as-a-writer-one-of-the-things-we-all-learned-from-the-movies-was-a/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f41/salman-rushdie-153_cinema_as-a-writer-one-of-the-things-we-all-lea_2695280.jpg) > [There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/there-was-a-series-called-game-of-thrones-which-was-very-popular-here/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7b/salman-rushdie-153_clothes_there-was-a-series-called-game-of-throne_2277935.jpg) > [I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-think-in-a-written-novel-the-way-in-which-you-play-with-the-readers/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/836/salman-rushdie-153_books_i-think-in-a-written-novel-the-way-in-wh_2875813.jpg) > [I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-grew-up-falling-in-love-with-kind-of-story-amazing-wonder-tale-of/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/626/salman-rushdie-153_children_i-grew-up-falling-in-love-with-kind-of-s_1664072.jpg) > [What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/what-i-found-interesting-writing-a-screenplay-as-opposed-to-writing-a/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d04/salman-rushdie-153_books_what-i-found-interesting-writing-a-scree_2042801.jpg) > [What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/what-kind-of-idea-are-you-are-you-the-kind-that-compromises-does/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51d/salman-rushdie-153_aim_what-kind-of-idea-are-you-are-you-the-ki_841462.jpg) ## Other authors on Kind ## More by Salman Rushdie > [If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-my-child-had-prejudice-in-his-head-i-d-be-ashamed-i-would-see-it/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/it-s-a-terrible-thing-that-your-life-turns-into-a-good-story/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/sometimes-by-a-woodland-stream-he-watched-the-water-rush-over-the/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-want-to-write-novels-i-want-to-write-stories-i-want-to-do-the-stuff/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-you-want-to-be-a-serious-writer-then-you-have-to-write-what-there/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/despu-s-de-exigir-mi-marcha-ya-no-posees-jurisdicci-n-en-lo/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-there-is-a-choice-between-absolute-safety-and-freedom-then-freedom/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-m-not-a-prophet-but-i-always-thought-it-was-natural-for/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-d-wanted-to-create-a-storm-so-that-i-could-become-more-famous-and/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/who-what-am-i-my-answer-i-am-the-sum-total-of-everything-that-went/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [“...proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/proving-once-again-that-there-was-no-escape-from-recurrence/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/information-in-a-stream-of-consciousness-soliloquy-that-revealed-the/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/a-little-bit-of-one-story-joins-onto-an-idea-from-another-and-hey/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-m-a-novelist-fortunately-i-don-t-have-to-rule-the-world/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) > [The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-first-amendment-defends-all-forms-of-speech-including-hate-speech/) [Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/salman-rushdie/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind/salman-rushdie/#itemlist", "name": "30 Kind Quotes By Salman Rushdie", "numberOfItems": 30, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Salman Rushdie" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/once-you-get-that-instinct-for-the-fictiveness-the-fictionality-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7a/salman-rushdie-153_fiction_once-you-get-that-instinct-for-the-ficti_474038.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7a/salman-rushdie-153_fiction_once-you-get-that-instinct-for-the-ficti_474038.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c7a/salman-rushdie-153_fiction_once-you-get-that-instinct-for-the-ficti_474038.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.” — Salman Rushdie", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Salman Rushdie" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/what-kind-of-christmas-present-would-jesus-ask-santa-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/salman-rushdie-153_christmas_what-kind-of-christmas-present-would-jes_2820026.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/salman-rushdie-153_christmas_what-kind-of-christmas-present-would-jes_2820026.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/184/salman-rushdie-153_christmas_what-kind-of-christmas-present-would-jes_2820026.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?” — Salman Rushdie", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What kind of a god is it that's upset by a cartoon in Danish?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Salman Rushdie" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/what-kind-of-a-god-is-it-that-s-upset-by-a-cartoon-in-danish/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e47/salman-rushdie-153_cartoon_what-kind-of-a-god-is-it-that-s-upset-by_3161734.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e47/salman-rushdie-153_cartoon_what-kind-of-a-god-is-it-that-s-upset-by_3161734.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e47/salman-rushdie-153_cartoon_what-kind-of-a-god-is-it-that-s-upset-by_3161734.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What kind of a god is it that's upset by a cartoon in Danish?” — Salman Rushdie", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. 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