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Famous Salman Rushdie Quotes
“England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.”
“Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'”
“Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.”
“Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.”
“Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.”
“I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.”
“I have to say that after some initial resistance, I'm now a complete 'Game of Thrones' addict.”
“I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.”
“I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.”
“I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.”
“I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.”
“I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.”
“I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.”
“I'm not saying I am never going to fall in love again, but there is no need to marry.”
“I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.”
“I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.”
“If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.”
“If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.”
“If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.”
“In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.”
“In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.”
“It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.”