1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Construction work was the art of making the city become aware of itself as a fragile organism at the mercy of forces against which there was no appeal.

El emigrante, por el contrario, puede prescindir totalmente del viaje; no es más que un mal necesario; lo que importa es llegar.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.

Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.

I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire

When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.

Raif Badawi's is an important voice for all of us to hear.

Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.