1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

My first novel – the novel I wrote before ‘Midnight’s Children’ – feels, to me, now, very – I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I’m, you know, I’m happy for.

But a man may dream, and in his dreams be other than he is.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don’t know quite what you’ve got.

Fundamentalism isn’t about religion, it’s about power.

It was the resilience in human beings that represented their best chance of survival, their ability to look the unimaginable, the unconscionable, the unprecedented in the eye.

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

I’m not a very big fan of ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’ I think it’s visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes.

I for one don’t need a supreme “sacred” arbiter in order to be a moral being.