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Salman Rushdie Quote: “You don’t that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that’s a loss.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I’ve always carried about is rather more vulnerable.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Matthew Wiener on ‘Mad Men’ writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “All over the world great writers were dying young: Italo Calvino, Raymond Carver, and now here was Angela wrestling with the Reaper. A fatwa was not the only way to die. There were older types of death sentence that still worked very well.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “And lo, there, immediately, was god, and he was furious. ‘How did you come up with the idea of me,’ he demanded, ‘who asked you to do that?’ and he threw them out of the garden, into, of all places, Iraq. ‘No good deed goes unpunished,’ said Eve to Adam, and that ought to be the motto of the entire human race. The.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “People don’t like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we’re bored.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Cruelty is not a literary value.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “I’ve always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world’s oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “They are the Eggheads. He is the Walrus.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “The suicide bomber’s imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people’s lives.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “It’s obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody’s work.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it’s just to annoy you.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Freedom to reject is the only freedom.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you’re lucky you finish at the smart end.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Did you know, ji,’ Zulu offered, ’that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other being history, the scholarly study of what happened, I think they’re both amazing ways to understand human nature.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “People are always telling me that they’ve seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “In general, writers shouldn’t be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “A man who catches History’s eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “I have no problem with people’s religious beliefs. I just don’t happen to have any.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie of the life of Gaddafi and you wanted a slightly better-looking version of Gaddafi, you might cast Imran Khan.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, ‘Where do we come from?’ and ‘How shall we live?’ And I would say I don’t need religion to answer those questions.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “What I’ve always seen in writers and artists is the courage it takes to make an original work of art. I think the real risks in literature are linguistic and intellectual, and I hope we can highlight those, as well as political courage.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Scraps of memory: this is not how a climax should be written. A climax should surge towards its Himalayan peak; but I am left with shreds, and must jerk towards my crisis like a puppet with broken strings. This is not what I had planned; but perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it’s not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Youth was often wretched, the struggle to become themselves tore the young to shreds, but sometimes, after the struggle, better days began.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “We were all trapped in stories, she said, just as he used to say, his wavy hair, his naughty smile, his beautiful mind, each of us the prisoner of our own solipsistic narrative, each family the captive of the family story, each community locked within its own tale of itself, each people the victims of their own versions of history, and there were parts of the world where the narratives collided and went to war, where there were two or more incompatible stories fighting for space on, to speak, the same page.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: ‘We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.’”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy.”
Salman Rushdie Quote: “The black ice of that dark fortress received the sunlight like a mortal wound.”
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