One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you give in to the threat of violence, if you give in to bullying, what you know is that there will… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice… — 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
