I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...one could accept Muhammad as a genuine mystic—just as one could accept Joan of Arc's voices as having genuinely been heard by… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father. — 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
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When… — 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
