I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an… — 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
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is… — 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
