Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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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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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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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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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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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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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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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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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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Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
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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 world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
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The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.
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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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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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India is my kid sister.
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It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.
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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've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.
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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.