The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that… — 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
I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that… — 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
How does newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it… — 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
Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's… — 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
We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I determined to make my peace with Islam, even at the cost of my pride. Those who were surprised and displeased by… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
He would dream of discovering a magic optometrist from whom he would purchase a pair of green-tinged spectacles which would correct his… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which… — 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
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
