I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child? — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up… — 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
“..and perhaps by something more; because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.” — 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
“Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We live in a world of disappointment. You begin with high hopes and the beautiful innocence of childhood but you discover that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Morality came before religion, and religion was our ancestors' way of responding to that built-in need. And if that was so, then… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly… — 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
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
“When you're whirling free of the mother ship, when you cut your ropes, slip your chain, step off the map, go absent… — 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
“The night in Lonsdale Square was cold, dark, and clear. There were two policemen in the square. When he got out of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The Fire Bug flared up at that. “You want to know what bugs me?” it said indignantly. “Nobodaddy’s friendly about fire. Oh,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal — drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that… — 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
“Even if Shaheed had been able to hear me, I could not then have told him what I later became convinced was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“the desperation of a mind unable to discipline itself and descending, therefore, into the carnivalesque. A mind imprisoned by itself, serving a… — 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
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Make as much racket as you like people. Noise is life and an excess of noise is a sign that life is… — 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
“and here is Nussie's husband, Ismail the lawyer, who has learned an important lesson from his son's forcep-birth: 'Nothing comes out right… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“This was what was left of a human individual when you took away his home,his family, his friends, his city, his country,his… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake… — 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
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
![“Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c6/salman-rushdie-153_abraham_abraham-zogoiby-covered-his-face-that-ni_1657178.jpg)
