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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The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Salman Rushdie

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.

Salman Rushdie

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

Salman Rushdie

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

Salman Rushdie

I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.

Salman Rushdie

Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.

Salman Rushdie

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

Salman Rushdie

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

Salman Rushdie

As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it ...

Salman Rushdie

If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sigh...

Salman Rushdie

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

Salman Rushdie

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

Salman Rushdie

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

Salman Rushdie

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.

Salman Rushdie

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

Salman Rushdie

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Salman Rushdie

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Salman Rushdie

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Salman Rushdie

When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

Salman Rushdie

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

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