Books Quote by Salman Rushdie Download Open image “Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.” — Salman Rushdie ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Purpose
But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you're going to abridge a book in the author's own words, you can't go sticking your own in. — William Goldman Copy Share Image
The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person. — Terrell Owens Copy Share Image
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family.… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about it, the atmosphere established… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Your ideal authors ought to pull you from the foundering of your previous existence, not smilingly guide you into a friendly and peaceable harbor. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If you want to be a serious writer, then you have to write what there is to write about. If you're going to pull… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Después de exigir mi marcha, ya no posees jurisdicción en lo concerniente a mi salud.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
