The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get… — 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
I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — 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
