Trying Quotes by Salman Rushdie

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

— Salman Rushdie

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin...

— Salman Rushdie

The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try…

— Salman Rushdie

I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I…

— Salman Rushdie

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

— Salman Rushdie

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

— Salman Rushdie

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

— Salman Rushdie

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying…

— Salman Rushdie

Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and…

— Salman Rushdie

But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of…

— Salman Rushdie

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

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I…

— Salman Rushdie

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one…

— Salman Rushdie

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

When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you…

— Salman Rushdie

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This…

— Salman Rushdie

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

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim…

— Salman Rushdie

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

There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that…

— Salman Rushdie

If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around…

— Salman Rushdie

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

— Salman Rushdie

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just…

— Salman Rushdie

So Thomas Pynchon wants a private life and no photographs and nobody to know his home address. I can dig it, I…

— Salman Rushdie

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the…

— Salman Rushdie

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is…

— Salman Rushdie