I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I… — 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
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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
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
When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do… — Salman Rushdie 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 think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt… — 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
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
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
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
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
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
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
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
“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
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share
