Salman Rushdie Quotes

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Salman Rushdie

Profession : Novelist

Birth : June 19, 1947

Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.

Salman Rushdie

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

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Nothing is unfilmable.

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When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.

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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

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

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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.

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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.

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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.

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The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

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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.

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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

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