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
Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it… The fatwa certainly made me think about it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it,… — 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 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
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see.… — 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
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
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
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have never really thought of myself as a writer about religion. And I think one of the things that happened to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've been worrying about God a little bit lately... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The thing that I think was very brave of my younger self was that he decided he would be an idiot. Just… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
