I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more… — Abhijit Banerjee Copy Share Image
“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." ―Salman Rushdie” — Jim Denney Copy Share Image
Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
For years, in the wake of Rushdie, I had imagined magical realism to be the last refuge of the non-resident Indian. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I want to grow a tan and an accent, then dig it out of my garden and staple it to my naked… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now --… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“I defend Salman Rushdie because it a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“We were created to be fully human - a lifetime effort - and using our minds intelligently and reverently is essential to… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
In Islam there is a line between let's say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
“Mind you, I do recall that Salman Rushdie actually came second in a science fiction writing competition organized by Gollancz in the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It was a very funny conference. I knew [Christopher Hitchens] before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Also, on account of the odd relationship between time and space, the people who do manage to time-jump sometimes space-jump at the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah ,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite! — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Salman Rushdie said, "A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your… — Veronica Bale Copy Share Image
Parts of India treat Rushdie like he's a rock star; we especially like boasting about him to our Western friends and acquaintances.… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
Younger women are willing to go out with high status males. If you look at the kind of women Salman Rushdie attracts,… — Mark Barrowcliffe 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
It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
“To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“Your potentials are called POTENTIALS because they are POTENT. Don't make them IMPOTENT by being IMPATIENT. Make an IMPACT".” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is clear from Salman Rushdie's writing that politics and literature cannot be separated. Everything is political. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“[T]he very multiculturalism and multiethnicity that brought Salman to the West, and that also made us richer by Hanif Kureishi, Nadeem Aslam,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
![“It was a very funny conference. I knew [Christopher Hitchens] before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He once stole a phrase from me that came out of his mouth on television. I saw his eyes move sideways. I thought, It's alright, you can have it! The conference was light on women…” quote by Hilary Mantel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d6/hilary-mantel-440_alright_it-was-a-very-funny-conference-i-knew-ch_980010.jpg)
![“It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9d8/christopher-hitchens-117_bullying_it-defending-salmon-rushdie-was-if-i-can_1912195.jpg)
![“[T]he very multiculturalism and multiethnicity that brought Salman to the West, and that also made us richer by Hanif Kureishi, Nadeem Aslam, Vikram Seth, Monica Ali, and many others, is now one of the disguises for a uni culturalism, based on moral relativism and moral blackmail (in addition to…” quote by Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/535/christopher-hitchens-117_illegal-immigration_t-he-very-multiculturalism-and-multiethn_2428300.jpg)