Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. It's still in the fifteenth… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought… — 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