Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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I did a lot of student acting when I was young.
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I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
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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.
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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.
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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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It is a funny view of the world that a book can cause riots.
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Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.
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It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
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We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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We are the storytelling animal.
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
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One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
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The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.
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Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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There is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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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.'
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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?