Literature Quotes by Salman Rushdie

“Literature is disputed territory.”

— Salman Rushdie

American literature has always been immigrant.

— Salman Rushdie

What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think…

— 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

Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All…

— Salman Rushdie

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our…

— Salman Rushdie

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I…

— Salman Rushdie

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in…

— Salman Rushdie

Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike…

— Salman Rushdie

As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength…

— Salman Rushdie

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about…

— Salman Rushdie

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China;…

— Salman Rushdie

We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution…

— Salman Rushdie

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see.…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about…

— 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