Salman Rushdie Quotes
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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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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.
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India is my kid sister.
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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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Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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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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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about 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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You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.
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A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
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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 had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
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This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.
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I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
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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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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.
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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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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
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Anyone who has had the experience of going through American security checks knows the purpose of these checks is not to make you safer; it's just to annoy you.
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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.