Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child? — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I… — 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… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Everest silences you...when you come down, nothing seems worth saying, nothing at all. You find the nothingness wrapping you up, like a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I have a general feeling that writers and artists who are in this peculiar situation, of being a persecuted artist, all anyone… — 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… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture… — 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
![“Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2c6/salman-rushdie-153_abraham_abraham-zogoiby-covered-his-face-that-ni_1657178.jpg)
