1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

I’m not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

People don’t like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we’re bored.

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.

I grew up reading ‘The Jungle Books’ and loving them.

It’s always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It’s where I come from.

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I’ve always carried about is rather more vulnerable.

I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, ‘Where do we come from?’ and ‘How shall we live?’ And I would say I don’t need religion to answer those questions.

No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.

You want all your books to stick around after you’ve gone.