Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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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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Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
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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.
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I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.
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The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.
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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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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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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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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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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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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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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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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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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.
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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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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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.