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
“many of us, as immigrants—or our parents or our grandparents—had chosen to leave our pasts behind just as the Goldens were now… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We are other than what we would have been if we had crossed the oceans, if or mothers and fathers had not… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is no magic on earth strong enough to wipe out the legacies of one's parents. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“And now, restored to the status of daughter in her own home, Amina began to feel the emotions of other people's food… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work… — 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
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“His mother had survived decades of marriage to his angry, disappointed, alcoholic father by developing what she called a “forgettery” instead of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies. — 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
“Her parents were killed in their private helicopter. An elite death but at the moment of dying we are all penniless. She… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A few seconds later, my father broke his big toe; but his accident was a mere trifle when set beside what had… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think… — salman rushdie Copy Share Image
“you lost parents. Your grief defines you and shuts you off from other people. That’s what I think.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Children, however magical, are not immune to their parents; and as the prejudices and world-views of adults began to take over their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When you're whirling free of the mother ship, when you cut your ropes, slip your chain, step off the map, go absent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“To grow up steeped in these tellings was to learn two unforgettable lessons: first, that stories were not true (there were no… — 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
