All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable. Salman Rushdie adultantsyday Change image and share on social
If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice. Salman Rushdie acceleratecityenormously share on social
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' Salman Rushdie accountafraidallow share on social
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it. Salman Rushdie answerreligionthink Change image and share on social
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 deskdisciplinehave Change image and share on social
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 agreecertifiablehave Change image and share on social
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies. Salman Rushdie fallgoodnessmiss Change image and share on social
I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture. Salman Rushdie citycosmopolitanculture Change image and share on social
I did a lot of student acting when I was young. Salman Rushdie actlotstudent Change image and share on social
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time. Salman Rushdie countryeuropeeuropean Change image and share on social
