Top 287 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

About Salman Rushdie

These are some quotes by Indian author Salman Rushdie Novelist, who was born on June 19, 1947.

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.

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.

Salman Rushdie

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

Salman Rushdie

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

Salman Rushdie

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Salman Rushdie

Nothing is unfilmable.

Nothing is unfilmable.

Salman Rushdie

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

Salman Rushdie

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

Salman Rushdie

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

Salman Rushdie

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

Salman Rushdie

The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.

Salman Rushdie

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