Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.
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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.
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If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
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Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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The question I'm always asking myself is: are we masters or victims? Do we make history, or does history make us? Do we shape the world, or are we just shaped by it? The question of do we have agency in our lives or whether we are just passive victims of events is, I think, a great question, and one that I have always tried to ask.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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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 used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
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If you're offended, it's your problem.
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In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.