Top 287 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.

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.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

We are the storytelling animal.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.