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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
— Salman Rushdie
I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
— Salman Rushdie
To know one man's story you have to swallow the world.
— Salman Rushdie
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
— Salman Rushdie
If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.
— Salman Rushdie
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
— Salman Rushdie
The adult chops down his childhood to help his grown-up self. The unsentimentality is appealing, don't you think?
— Salman Rushdie
Peace broke out.
— Salman Rushdie
I have been so-many too-many persons; life, unlike syntax, allows one more than three.
— Salman Rushdie
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
— Salman Rushdie
English, no longer, an English language, now grows from many roots.
— Salman Rushdie
If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.
— Salman Rushdie
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
— Salman Rushdie
Naught but love makes magic real.
— Salman Rushdie
This is our tragedy, she said in his words, our fictions are killing us, but if we didn't have those fictions, maybe that would kill us too.
— Salman Rushdie
No, sir. A sin. A suchmuch thing.
— Salman Rushdie
It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state.
— Salman Rushdie
The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.
— Salman Khan
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
— Salman Khurshid
I'm not possessive, I'm caring ... Once you realize a person doesn't want that much care, you automatically back off.
— Salman Khan
If I ever have a child.. Insh'allah I will ... I wish it's a girl. I want a girl child.
— Salman Khan
If power was a a cry, then human lives were lived in the echo of the cries of others.
— Salman Rushdie
So India's problem turns out to be the world's problem. What happened in India has happened in God's name.
The problem's name is God. — Salman Rushdie
The problem's name is God. — Salman Rushdie
The world is not ideas, rich kid, the world is things. If you have things, you have time to dream, if you don't ... You'll fight.
— Salman Rushdie
You observe ... that when it's time to unleash a few insults, a man will always choose his mother tongue.
— Salman Rushdie
He met her on 26 December 1969, five days before the end of the sixties, when he was twenty-two and she was twenty-one.
— Salman Rushdie
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
— Salman Rushdie
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
— Salman Rushdie
The old man heard the music of the imperialists issuing from the golden hotel, heavy with the gaiety of despair...
— Salman Rushdie
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
— Salman Rushdie
My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident.
— Salman Rushdie
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
— Salman Rushdie
Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.
— Salman Rushdie
If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
— Salman Rushdie
Genius was being born in her, filling the empty spaces in her bed, her heart, her womb. She needed no-one but herself.
— Salman Rushdie
I don't have to show that I am working very hard.
— Salman Khan
After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow.
— Salman Rushdie
British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
— Salman Rushdie
adamant. 'They would be the wrong publishers for you.' Later, after
— Salman Rushdie
I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.
— Salman Rushdie
Life again refused to remain lifesized
— Salman Rushdie
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
— Salman Rushdie
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
— Salman Rushdie
Once you put a thought into the world, it can be disagreed with, but it can't be unthought.
— Salman Rushdie
I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
— Salman Rushdie
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
— Salman Rushdie
Originality is dangerous.
— Salman Rushdie
To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm.
— Salman Rushdie
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
— Salman Rushdie
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 from what they tell me.
— Salman Rushdie
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
— Salman Rushdie
We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
— Salman Khurshid
My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
— Salman Rushdie
Montgomery Clift in I Confess?
— Salman Rushdie
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
— Salman Rushdie
but something was given in exchange for what was lost
— Salman Rushdie
To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
— Salman Rushdie
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
— Salman Rushdie
This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .
— Salman Rushdie
In my view, no subject is ever finished. No concept is sealed off from other concepts. Knowledge is continuous; ideas flow.
— Salman Khan
Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
— Salman Rushdie
We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is.
— Salman Rushdie
I believe Salman Khurshid could not have embezzled Rs 71 lakh ... It is a very small amount for a central minister.
— Beni Prasad Verma
Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
— Salman Rushdie
Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.
— Salman Rushdie
Freedom to reject is the only freedom.
— Salman Rushdie
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
— Salman Rushdie
It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.
— Salman Rushdie
What would a respectful political cartoon look like?
— Salman Rushdie
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
— Salman Rushdie
I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
— Salman Rushdie
What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006] — Salman Rushdie
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006] — Salman Rushdie
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
— Salman Rushdie
The problem's name is God.
— Salman Rushdie
The actor's life offers, on a daily basis, the simulacrum of love; a mask can be satisfied, or at least consoled, by the echo of what it seeks.
— Salman Rushdie
To reflect is to regain a little, lost sense of proportion
— Salman Rushdie
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.
— Salman Rushdie
I don't know why but they you said it I started believing it.
— Salman Naveed
A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
— Salman Rushdie
I grew up kissing books and bread,
— Salman Rushdie
We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.
— Salman Rushdie
Beware, the light seemed to say, for I come to burn and judge.
— Salman Rushdie
LIFE SHOULD BE ENJOYED UPTO ITS EXTENT.
— Salman Akhtar
Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
— Salman Rushdie
Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies
— Salman Rushdie
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
— Salman Rushdie
They were deeply in love, which beats earplugs.
— Salman Rushdie