As I look back, I feel a touch of pride at my younger self's dedication to literature, which gave him the strength… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“O my vanity I am an arrogant man, is this weakness, is it just a dream of power? Must I betray myself… — 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
“The self may be royal, but it hungers like a pauper. [...] And it is a king imperilled, a sovereign forever at… — 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
![“The self may be royal, but it hungers like a pauper. [...] And it is a king imperilled, a sovereign forever at the mercy of many insurgents, of fear, for example, and anxiety, of isolation and bewilderment, of a strange unspeakable pride and a wild, silent shame. The self is beset by secrets…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4f/salman-rushdie-153_identity_the-self-may-be-royal-but-it-hungers-lik_2134390.jpg)
