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title: "42 Way Quotes By Salman Rushdie"
description: "42 Way quotes by Salman Rushdie. Plus more from Salman Rushdie and more Way sayings from other authors."
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> [Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/madame-bovary-and-a-flying-carpet-they-are-both-untrue-in-the-same/)

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> [Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/writers-shouldn-t-have-lives-that-are-interesting-it-gets-in-the-way/)

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> [I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-think-the-veil-is-a-way-of-taking-power-away-from-women/)

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> [If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-you-actually-want-to-change-your-world-there-is-a-better-way-of/)

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> [Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/memory-is-a-way-of-telling-you-what-s-important-to-you/)

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> [Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/things-even-people-have-a-way-of-leaking-into-each-other-like/)

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> [The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-only-way-of-living-in-a-free-society-is-to-feel-that-you-have-the/)

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> [England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/england-in-a-way-is-lucky-it-s-an-island-so-the-frontiers-are-given/)

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> [I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-am-on-facebook-but-mainly-as-a-way-to-spy-on-my-children-i-find-out/)

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> [I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-don-t-like-books-that-seem-to-want-to-teach-me-things-which-is-not/)

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> [The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-way-you-write-a-screenplay-is-that-you-close-your-eyes-and-run/)

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> [You can adhere to your faith, but that faith needs to march in line with the rest of the world and needs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/you-can-adhere-to-your-faith-but-that-faith-needs-to-march-in-line/)

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> [When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/when-you-start-writing-about-the-stuff-that-is-the-central-experience/)

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> [The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-world-is-about-the-way-in-which-our-dreams-intersect-with-our/)

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> [He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/he-had-picked-up-languages-the-way-most-sailors-pick-up-diseases/)

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> [Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/literature-is-the-one-place-in-any-society-where-within-the-secrecy/)

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> [When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/when-you-write-you-in-a-way-write-out-of-what-you-think-of-as-your/)

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> [This was an age before e-books. We all knew that the only way you can allow a book to survive in print…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/this-was-an-age-before-e-books-we-all-knew-that-the-only-way-you-can/)

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> [I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-have-always-thought-that-these-two-ways-of-talking-one-is-the/)

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> [I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-ve-always-thought-that-one-of-the-things-that-the-internet-and-the/)

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> [When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/when-i-was-growing-up-everyone-around-me-was-fond-of-fooling-around/)

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> [When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/when-you-are-writing-a-book-it-feels-as-if-you-are-simply/)

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> [Even the Islam stuff I thought was pretty respectful about Islam in a funny way. I mean, yes, from a secular point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/even-the-islam-stuff-i-thought-was-pretty-respectful-about-islam-in-a/)

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> [When people use the term magic realism, usually they only mean 'magic' and they don't hear 'realism', whereas the way in which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/when-people-use-the-term-magic-realism-usually-they-only-mean-magic/)

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> [You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/you-ve-got-a-generation-of-young-men-almost-all-are-young-men-in/)

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> [Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/sometimes-by-a-woodland-stream-he-watched-the-water-rush-over-the/)

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> [I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-don-t-think-it-is-always-necessary-to-take-up-the-anti-colonial-or/)

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> [Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/literature-is-the-one-place-in-any-society-where-within-the-secrecy-2/)

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> [The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-answer-to-religion-is-not-no-religion-but-another-way-of-thinking/)

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> [It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/it-is-literature-which-for-me-opened-the-mysterious-and-decisive/)

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> [The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-only-way-to-find-out-why-someone-decides-to-engage-in-armed/)

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> [Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/islam-is-unusual-in-that-it-s-the-only-one-of-the-great-world/)

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> [I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-reluctantly-concluded-that-there-was-no-way-for-me-to-help-bring/)

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> [When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/when-you-re-writing-for-the-screen-you-have-to-be-hyper-conscious/)

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> [They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/they-lived-in-a-great-city-a-metropolis-of-many-narratives-that/)

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> [What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/what-i-worry-about-and-don-t-like-is-the-way-in-which-the-ideology-of/)

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> [I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-thought-you-know-i-would-probably-not-have-seen-that-on-the-other/)

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> [A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/a-book-is-a-product-of-a-pact-with-the-devil-that-inverts-the/)

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> [I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-think-in-a-written-novel-the-way-in-which-you-play-with-the-readers/)

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> [Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/fundamentalists-believe-that-we-don-t-believe-in-anything-in-their/)

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## More by Salman Rushdie

> [If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-my-child-had-prejudice-in-his-head-i-d-be-ashamed-i-would-see-it/)

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> [It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/it-s-a-terrible-thing-that-your-life-turns-into-a-good-story/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/sometimes-by-a-woodland-stream-he-watched-the-water-rush-over-the/)

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> [I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-want-to-write-novels-i-want-to-write-stories-i-want-to-do-the-stuff/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-you-want-to-be-a-serious-writer-then-you-have-to-write-what-there/)

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> [“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/despu-s-de-exigir-mi-marcha-ya-no-posees-jurisdicci-n-en-lo/)

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> [If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/if-there-is-a-choice-between-absolute-safety-and-freedom-then-freedom/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-m-not-a-prophet-but-i-always-thought-it-was-natural-for/)

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> [I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-d-wanted-to-create-a-storm-so-that-i-could-become-more-famous-and/)

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> [Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/who-what-am-i-my-answer-i-am-the-sum-total-of-everything-that-went/)

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> [“...proving once again that there was no escape from recurrence.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/proving-once-again-that-there-was-no-escape-from-recurrence/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/information-in-a-stream-of-consciousness-soliloquy-that-revealed-the/)

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> [A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/a-little-bit-of-one-story-joins-onto-an-idea-from-another-and-hey/)

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> [I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/i-m-a-novelist-fortunately-i-don-t-have-to-rule-the-world/)

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> [The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/salman-rushdie/the-first-amendment-defends-all-forms-of-speech-including-hate-speech/)

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