One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.' — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation. — 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… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. — 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
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I… — 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… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award is a way of spotlighting individual cases. If you look at the history of the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“He was already beginning to understand that what was wrong with his writing was that there was something wrong, something misconceived, about… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both. — 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
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of… — 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
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
A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones.… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
![“[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we…” quote by Salman Rushdie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dc3/salman-rushdie-153_advice_what-rushdie-took-away-from-reading-gunt_740546.jpg)
