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Books Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- I grew up kissing books and bread.
- 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…
- A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
- Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
- It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
- I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
- I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
- I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
- It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
- People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
- You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
- 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…
- I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't…
- I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to…
- 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…
- What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with…
- When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a…
- I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and…
- I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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