thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I… — 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
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on… — 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
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
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't… — 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
![“To put it as simply as possible: I am not a Muslim.[...] I do not accept the charge of apostacy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one can not be said to have apostasized from. The Islam I know states clearly that 'there can be no coercion in…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c44/salman-rushdie-153_accepting_to-put-it-as-simply-as-possible-i-am-not_245927.jpg)
