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Read Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'
- 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…
- Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
- Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
- 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…
- When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms.…
- A book is not completed till it's read.
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