1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.

One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.