"Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't……" — Salman Rushdie

"Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got."

— Salman Rushdie

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482 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie has 482 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of…
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which,…
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the…
There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds…
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming.…
Good advice is rarer than rubies.
In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence…
For a fellow who's not to much to look at, you have the instincts of a champion.
A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but…
Free speech is life itself.
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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