1,092 Quotes by Salman Rushdie

The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

If somebody's trying to shut you up, sing louder, and if possible, better.

Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.

Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter's tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.