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 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.

Salman Rushdie

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

Salman Rushdie

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

Salman Rushdie

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

Salman Rushdie

If you're offended, it's your problem.

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I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and un...

Salman Rushdie

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Salman Rushdie

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

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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 think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

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The world is a very abnormal place.

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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.

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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.

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The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.

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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

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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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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

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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