Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The world is not ideas, rich kid, the world is things. If you have things, you have time to dream, if you… — salman rushdie Copy Share Image
“What is heroism in our time? What is villainy? How much we have forgotten, if we don’t know the answer to such… — 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
“London had grown unstable once again, revealing its true, capricious, tormented nature, its anguish of a city that had lost its sense… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain – hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get… — 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
Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens… — 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
“This was what was left of a human individual when you took away his home,his family, his friends, his city, his country,his… — 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
Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The crux of a great person’s life is the choice between doing what is right and what he wants to do. Abraham… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million five hundred six, reducing me to specks… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A race that rejected the idea of personal sacrifice would surely be erased from time's records before long.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
All migrants leave their pasts behind, although some try to pack it into bundles and boxes-but on the journey something seeps out… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't… — 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
