A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“And blessed be the first sweet suffering that I felt in being conjoined with love and the bow and the shafts with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He wondered if he would live to see the blossom on his apple trees and felt an answering pop inside himself. Ah,… — 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
