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Just Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
- 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.
- An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
- Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
- 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.
- In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
- Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out…
- There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of…
- Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's…
- Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the…
- I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small…
- The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the…
- When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've…
- When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening…
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