Best Salman Rushdie Quotations
- Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. Conflict
- Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. Act
- It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. Book
- Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Among
- Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. Facts
- Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. Central
- If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. Ashamed
- One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. Becomes
- Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. Bedtime
- Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. Absence
- Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms. All
- The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the… Burn
- When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. Best
- Our lives teach us who we are. Character
- 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 of… Always Thought
- The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -… Any
- British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism. Been
- I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable. Clearly
- I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than… Children
- I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. Admitting
- If you're offended, it's your problem. Inspirational
- In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people. Any
- A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument. Argument
- A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve. Achieve
- A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one. Imaginary
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