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Quote by Salman Rushdie

“All names mean something.”

Work

This book follows the journey of a young boy named Haroun, who embarks on an epic quest to save his father's storytelling ability. The narrative is filled with imaginative creatures and a magical world that encourages the power of imagination and the importance of stories. more

Author

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie (born June 19, 1947) is a British-Indian novelist and essayist. Known for his magical realism style, his novel Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize in 1981. His works often explore themes of cultural conflict, religion, and politics. In 1988, his novel The Satanic Verses sparked global controversy, leading to a fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his assassination. Rushdie spent years in hiding under police protection. He remains a prominent voice in contemporary English literature, celebrated for his literary innovation and defense of free expression. more

“I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal." And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends.”

Source: The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and tales. Eureka, an essay on the material and spiritual universe

“I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?”

Said Might Known Objects Wall Fool Eternal Red Burning Urges Iron Pits Bosoms Garments Eternal Peace

Book:The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More

Source: The Tell-Tale Heart: And Other Stories - Purloined Letter, Descent into the Maelström, Von Kempelen and His Discovery, Mesmeric Revelation, Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, Black Cat, Fall of the House of Usher, Masque of the Red Death and Many More

“-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter”

Matter Ties Jeeves

Book:A Wodehouse Bestiary

Source: A Wodehouse Bestiary

“You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun”

Gun Blame Triggers

Author:Fiona Apple

“Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us”

Water Can Do Our Lives Personality Picks Flow Landscape Carrie

Book:Memoirs Of A Geisha

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.”