Quotes by Salman Rushdie

About Salman Rushdie:

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations.
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I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives teach us who we are.

Salman Rushdie

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

Salman Rushdie

Cruelty is not a literary value.

Salman Rushdie

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

Salman Rushdie

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

Salman Rushdie

I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

Salman Rushdie

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Salman Rushdie

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

Salman Rushdie

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

Salman Rushdie

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.

Salman Rushdie

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

Salman Rushdie

Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

Salman Rushdie

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

Salman Rushdie

I accept there are people out there who don't like me. I don't like them.

Salman Rushdie

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

Salman Rushdie

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

Salman Rushdie

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

Salman Rushdie

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Salman Rushdie

England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

Salman Rushdie

I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.

Salman Rushdie

Author Bio

  • NameSalman Rushdie
  • DescriptionBritish Indian novelist and essayist
  • BornJune 19, 1947
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Essayist
  • AwardsCommandeur Des Arts Et Des Lettres?; Austrian State Prize For European Literature; PEN Pinter Prize; James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award