“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“The problem for US officials is the same problem that filters through all the other sections of our societies. It goes something… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
“The police arrived and went to question the driver of the truck, who was still sitting in his cab, scratching his head.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A postcolonial writer who has often been credited with mixing the mundane with the magical, and history with fiction, is Salman Rushdie. — Amitava Kumar 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
“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
“The Pakistani film International Gorillay (International guerillas), produced by Sajjad Gul, told the story of a group of local heroes - of… — Salman Rushdie 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
“On page 605, Blumenthal says that 'I made friends with Hitchens's friends the novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.' True in its… — Christopher Hitchens 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
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 also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India. — William Golding 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
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
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
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
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
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
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