Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.' — 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
