In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have… — 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… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The only position when violence is threatened in response to a novel or a cartoon or a crappy YouTube video is a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — 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
