34 Quotations by Salman Rushdie
- 1. A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in ret ...

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

- 3. Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

- 4. I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

- 5. I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I ...

- 6. I used to say: "there is a God-shaped hole in me." For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. ...

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

- 8. If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to fi ...

- 9. In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, fro ...

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

- 11. Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human ...

- 12. Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like s ...

- 13. Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that ex ...

- 14. Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that ex ...

- 15. One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

- 16. Our lives teach us who we are.

- 17. Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plaus ...

- 18. Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.

- 19. Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an ...

- 20. The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not giv ...

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