Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — 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
Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim. — 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
If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them. — 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
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
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
In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a… — 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'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me. — 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
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
The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.' — 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
I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I suppose authoritarians don't like being made fun of because authoritarian rulers have a very inflated sense of themselves and don't like… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The desire for story is very, very deep in human beings. We are the only creature in the world that does this;… — 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
