Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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India is my kid sister.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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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.
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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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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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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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The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.