Want Quotes by Salman Rushdie

“If you want pay, then just be gay.”

— Salman Rushdie

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

— Salman Rushdie

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

— Salman Rushdie

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

— Salman Rushdie

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

— Salman Rushdie

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

— Salman Rushdie

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

— Salman Rushdie

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to…

— Salman Rushdie

I am gagged and imprisoned. I can't even speak. I want to kick a football in a park with my son. Ordinary,…

— Salman Rushdie

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

— Salman Rushdie

YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can…

— Salman Rushdie

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and…

— Salman Rushdie

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what…

— Salman Rushdie

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent…

— Salman Rushdie

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a…

— Salman Rushdie

If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going…

— Salman Rushdie

But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire…

— Salman Rushdie

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from…

— Salman Rushdie

If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You…

— Salman Rushdie

If you want to draw people into the story, you really have to write as if you're writing a novel and make…

— Salman Rushdie

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about…

— Salman Rushdie

This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print…

— Salman Rushdie

“Anything you want to be, you can be: You can be just what-all you want.”

— Salman Rushdie

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me…

— Salman Rushdie

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

— 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

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you…

— Salman Rushdie

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want…

— Salman Rushdie