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Salman Rushdie - From the Ambition category:
Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things... that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Art category:
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Artists category:
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Books category:
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Books category:
It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Communication category:
Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately, to the notion that something can also be gained. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Creativity category:
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Doubt category:
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Effort category:
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin... (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Faith category:
Faith without doubt is addiction. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Finishing category:
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Freedom category:
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Friendship category:
I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Fun category:
It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Humanity category:
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Imagination category:
Few topographical boundaries can rival the frontiers of the mind. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Importance category:
-, Midnight's Children...
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Language category:
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Language category:
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Life category:
Our lives teach us who we are. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Limitations category:
We are described into corners, and then we must describe ourselves out of corners. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Meaning category:
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Meaning category:
- The Moor's Last Sigh...
A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Memory category:
Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Peace category:
In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Photography category:
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Poetry category:
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Realism category:
-Shame...
Realism can break a writer's heart. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Reality category:
-The Satanic Verses...
The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Religion category:
I've been worrying about God a little bit lately... It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Religion category:
I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Seeing category:
- The Ground Beneath Her Feet...
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step outside the frame. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Solitude category:
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Standards category:
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish... to do otherwise is to legitimize it. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Thinking category:
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Thought category:
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Thought category:
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Truth category:
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Understanding category:
I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world. (Salman Rushdie)
Salman Rushdie - From the Writing category:
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away. (Salman Rushdie)
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