Salman Rushdie Quotes

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

Became a way of life. - Salman Rushdie

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

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers. - Salman Rushdie

And now, as if to finish things off, the Himalayan winter is setting in, and the greatest calamity of all may lie ahead of us, not behind. - Salman Rushdie

Always do something impossible right at the beginning of the show?. Swallow a sword, tie yourself in a knot, defy gravity. Do what the audience knows it could never do no matter how hard it tries. After that you'll have them eating out of your hand. - Salman Rushdie

After the eastern tsunami and the western hurricanes, this is not incomprehensible. But the people of Kashmir deserve better than they are getting. - Salman Rushdie

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. - Salman Rushdie

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

[He was also] the most tolerant, open-minded, intellectually generous, nonjudgmental adult that I ever met as a child... the spirit of my grandfather came to infuse the spirit of the place. - Salman Rushdie

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