Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family,… — 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
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the end, the thing that's important about free expression is that it's the right from which all other rights are derived.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For many people, I've ceased to be a human being. I've become an issue, a bother, an "affair"… And has it really… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that… — 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
