Salman Rushdie Quotes

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Salman Rushdie

Profession : Novelist

Birth : June 19, 1947

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

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.

Salman Rushdie

Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

Salman Rushdie

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Salman Rushdie

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

Salman Rushdie