Salman Rushdie Quotes
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People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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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.
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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
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Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.