1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

We all owe death a life.

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.

With death comes honesty.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.