All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Human life was rarely shapely, only intermittently meaningful, its clumsiness the inevitable consequence of the victory of content over form, of what… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Easily found, easily gathered, lives were the small change of this world, and if you lost a few, it didn't matter; there… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The crux of a great person’s life is the choice between doing what is right and what he wants to do. Abraham… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with… — 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
“After they stopped torturing him they locked him in the jail cell again and pretended they would forget him... Then, eventually, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Anything you want to be, you can be: You can be just what-all you want.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We, the living, must find what space we can alongside them; the giant dead whom we cannot tie down, though we grasp… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“From 'The Suicide', a play by the Russian writer Nikolai Erdman: 'Only the dead can say what the living are thinking.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“said, think of life as a novel, let’s say a novel of four hundred pages, and then imagine how many pages in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.” — 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
“Mostly, I heard about it from the Estate servants, who found it quite natural to speak openly of a death, but rarely… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This is how people behave when their dailiness is destroyed, when for a few moments they see, plain and unadorned, one of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“To grow up steeped in these tellings was to learn two unforgettable lessons: first, that stories were not true (there were no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“But then the subject turned to the spiritual life and Meg talked about her many visits to ashrams in India and her… — 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
![“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc3/salman-rushdie-153_advice_what-rushdie-took-away-from-reading-gunt_740546.jpg)
