1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

You never know the answers to the questions of life until you are asked.

I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.

The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

One of the strange things that happens when you publish a book is that you begin ... to see what resonances it has for the readers, ... Sometimes you begin to understand your book a bit more.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.