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
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you… — 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
I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I… — 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
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world… — 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
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing. — 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
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Because I've always felt, whether the fatwa or whatever, the writer's great weapon is the truth and integrity of his voice. And… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The Hindustani storyteller always knows when he loses his audience," he said. "Because the audience simply gets up and leave, or else… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard… — 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
If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can. — 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
Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It… — 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
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
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
What I've always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you… — 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
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
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can… — 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
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
