Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be,… — 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
