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.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.

Salman Rushdie

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

Salman Rushdie

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

Salman Rushdie

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

Salman Rushdie

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

Salman Rushdie

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

Salman Rushdie

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Salman Rushdie

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

Salman Rushdie

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Salman Rushdie

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

Salman Rushdie

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