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
“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Her parents were killed in their private helicopter. An elite death but at the moment of dying we are all penniless. She… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“It is hard for a person of no faith like myself to comprehend the moment when faith dies in the human heart.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“During his illness he had spent every minute of consciousness calling upon God, every second of every minute. Ya Allah whose servant… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A few seconds later, my father broke his big toe; but his accident was a mere trifle when set beside what had… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“From the moment their pact is made, that devil’s contract that will make neither of them happy, there’s no stopping them. At… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“time, in my experience, has been as variable and inconstant as Bombay’s electric power supply. Just telephone the speaking clock if you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Anybody who's spent any time with machines at all,' he added, 'and baby, that's us all, knows first and foremost there's only… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In these our cowardly times, we deny the grandeur of the Universal, and assert and glorify our local Bigotries, and so we… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a mother who, in order to become a mother, had agreed to change her name; who… — 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 was born in the city of Bombay ... once upon a time. No, that won't do, there's no getting away from… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“She watched him recede into the past as he stood...each successive moment of him passing before her eyes and being lost forever.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the problems of truth being censored for a really long time is that people lose the ability to intuit what… — 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
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
