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Reading 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…
- I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
- 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.
- People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
- 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…
- My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I…
- The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who…
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