If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“many of us, as immigrants—or our parents or our grandparents—had chosen to leave our pasts behind just as the Goldens were now… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Also – for there had been more than a few migrants aboard, yes, quite a quantity of wives who had been grilled… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab… — 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
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“...because it is the privilige and the curse of midnight's children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This… — 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
“Then a strange moment came, a moment of the kind that determines the fate of nations, because when a crowd loses its… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Africa, have you seen it? No? Then is it truly there?...And the past, did it happen? And the future, will it come?… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now… — 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
“Also, on account of the odd relationship between time and space, the people who do manage to time-jump sometimes space-jump at the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Time passes. Big men dwindle, small men grow. This man shrinks into old age, those men’s reach grows longer. They can stretch… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The old man has always believed in the mutability of things; has known that no matter how solid the ground beneath your… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The future, even when it was only a question-shrouded glimmer, would not be eclipsed by the past; even when death moved towards… — 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
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
