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- One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
- 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…
- 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.
- Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not…
- I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
- I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
- If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
- One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
- One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the…
- The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
- The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
- The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
- Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
- The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously,…
- It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at…
- But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever…
- I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be…
- I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood…
- If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such…
- If the culture shifts, if people think differently about women, the art will shift, too. You can't ask art to make social change. It's not…
- If you live in free countries, you don't have to spend all your life arguing about freedom because it is all around you. It seems…
- Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount…
- One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew…
- Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state,…
- Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they…
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