Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.


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A change in direction was required. The story you finished was perhaps never the one you began. Yes!...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy...
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the w...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to co...
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I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to wr...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
One of the strange things that happens when you publish a book is that you begin ... to see what res...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in th...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
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Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom fr...
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I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. An...
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antediluvian, who think of homosexuality as ungodly, who have little time for real freedom of expres...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plaus...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speak...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught...
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I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of ...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
There'll be one track that I like and a lot of it that is just wallpaper and sounds the same.
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Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound
bite on religion, I would say I was against it.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it."<...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it wo...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, w...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Always do something impossible right at the beginning of the show?. Swallow a sword, tie yourself in...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I've tried to live without fear. Fear paralyzes you. I've tried to get on with my life.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years..,
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Obviously, it is a very great honor and I'm very pleased to have it, and it's very nice to be recogn...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
I think it's a stupid way to read a book, ... to say that because something happens to one person th...
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Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury — sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal — drives us to ou...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, abou...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
A question I have often asked is, ‘What would an inoffensive political cartoon look like?’ What ...
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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
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Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.
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From such defensive, separated worlds some youngsters have indefensibly stepped across a moral line ...
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Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
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However, in the end, the question [remains]: Why him and not the man standing next to him? Why did t...
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The Satanic Verses.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative...
SALMAN RUSHDIE
از همان زمان برمن روشن شد که خانواده به‌طور ضمنی به اصل...
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