You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity. If you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that… — 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
When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land… — 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
