Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
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I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.
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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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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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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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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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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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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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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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Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.
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India is my kid sister.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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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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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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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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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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I do think that there is such a thing as human nature, and that the things that we have in common are perhaps greater than the things that divide us.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.