Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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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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Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
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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.
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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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I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.
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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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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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There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.
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A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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India is my kid sister.
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The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
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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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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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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 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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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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It is a funny view of the world that a book can cause riots.
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The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.
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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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The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.
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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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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi, seemed relevant to a middle-class kid growing up on the other side of the world. That has always fascinated me.