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
“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
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I allowed myself the supernatural, the transcendent, because, I told myself, our love of metaphor is pre-religious, born of our need to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Love is spring after winter. It comes to heal life’s wounds, inflicted by the unloving cold.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“She'd never shaken off the feeling of being damaged by her ignorance of Love, of what it might be like to be… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It is all for love. Which is a wonderful and dashing matter. But which can also be a very foolish thing.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“One day, perhaps, the world may taste the pickles of history. They may be too strong for some palates, their smell may… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Get thee behind me, Satan. Seek not come between a lover and his love.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I am your handiwork made flesh. You took beauty and created hideousness, and out of this monstrosity your child will be born… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Love, my child, is a thing that every mother learns; it is not born with a baby, but made; and for eleven… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The world is full of love stories, and all lovers are in a sense the avatars of their predecessors.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work.… — 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
