Quotes by Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Engels writer

Lived from: 1947 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 19 june 1947

  • The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.
  • This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
  • A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
  • I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
  • No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
  • Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
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  • After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
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  • An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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  • A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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  • A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 13
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  • Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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  • Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
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  • Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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  • Faith without doubt is addiction.
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  • Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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  • Freedom to reject is the only freedom.
    The Ground Beneath Her Feet (2000) 146
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  • Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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  • From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
    The Satanic Verses
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  • Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.
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  • How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
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  • I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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  • I didn't become a writer to write about me.
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  • I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
    (2006)
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  • I grew up kissing books and bread.
    Is nothing sacred? (1990)
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  • I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.
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What are the most famous quotes from Salman Rushdie?

The two most famous quotes from Salman Rushdie are:

  • "After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price."
  • "An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings."

When did Salman Rushdie live?

Salman Rushdie was born in 1947.