Salman Rushdie Quotes
-
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.
-
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.
-
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
-
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
-
I will come back to India - so deal with it.
-
I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
-
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
-
Our lives teach us who we are.
-
What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.
-
Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
-
I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
-
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
-
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
-
We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.
-
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
-
When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.
-
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
-
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.
-
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
-
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
-
It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
-
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
-
I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
-
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.