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Way Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return…
- Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every…
- 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…
- England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
- I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
- If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
- The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
- The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
- The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
- It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the…
- I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers'…
- 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…
- The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to…
- What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very…
- 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…
- When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever…
- They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that…
- Sometimes by a woodland stream he watched the water rush over the pebbled bed, its tiny modulations of bounce and flow. A woman's body was…
- He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
- Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
- The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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