1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'

After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.

wants the dreadful, wants to stare down the human race's worst-case scenarios.

If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you're dumb and blind.