Best Salman Rushdie Sayings
- Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes. Assumption
- The USA approach looks like bullying because it is. Approach
- I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.' Badly
- No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding… Amish
- The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the… Any
- The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words. Culture
- Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. Becomes
- Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin... Always Try
- It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird… All
- Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind. Boundaries
- If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through… Always Reaching
- I've been worrying about God a little bit lately... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do… Bad
- What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Banned Books
- I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some… Carry
- A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to… Argument
- A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. Beer
- I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. Friends
- When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. Action
- If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now. Allen
- Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. Ball
- What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. Art
- One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting. Defend
- I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in. Explain
- Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust… Become Mere
- The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the… Acceptance
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