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 Copy Share Image
The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I… — 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
A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work. — 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
