The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...they all were, in the grip of a huge fantasy: the idea that men would not be judged by who they once… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“and the incident of the Satanic verses in the early career of the Prophet, and the politics of Muhammad’s harem after his… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Mr. Harappa,' the Angrez television interviewer is asking, 'many commentators would say, there is a widely-held view, some sectors of opinion maintain,… — 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
“He was flying over India now, still making notes. He remembered hearing an Indian politician on TV talking about the British prime… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Keep away from her," said Ameer Merchant, but once the inexorable dynamic of the mythic has been set in motion, you might… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list,… — 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 was like that. If you watched it carefully enough you could see how it moved to the rhythm of the world, the deep rhythm, the music below the music, the truth below the truth. He believed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
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
