The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years. — 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
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
Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years… — 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
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
