Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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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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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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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India is my kid sister.
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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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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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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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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'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 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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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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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
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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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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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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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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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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'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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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.