Stories Quotes by Salman Rushdie

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

— Salman Rushdie

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

— Salman Rushdie

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

— Salman Rushdie

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

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When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.

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Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

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Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof…

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I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

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Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make…

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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside…

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Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story,…

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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human…

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I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to…

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When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that…

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They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different…

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If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make…

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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

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people…

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As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is…

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If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a…

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I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing…

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When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things…

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When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When…

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A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but…

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I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly…

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I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line.…

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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

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Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,…

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I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to…

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Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the…

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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one…

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I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the…

— Salman Rushdie

Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal,…

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As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as…

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“...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

You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the…

— Salman Rushdie

The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought…

— Salman Rushdie