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“Ideas are interesting to me, and religions are a place where ideas have been very subtly embodied for thousands of years. All literature started as sacred literature.”

Quote by Salman Rushdie

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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

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“I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.”

Mean Remember Culture Father Civilization Blind Islam Our Family Grandfather Remember When Open Minded Blind Faith Zealot

Author:Salman Rushdie

“No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.”

Book:Haroun and the Sea of Stories

Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories

“Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.”

World Views Vulnerable Uncertain Fluid World View

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Science fiction is where I started out, really. When I was a kid, I was a complete addict of science fiction. It was one of my earliest interests as a writer, and I've just taken a long time to circle back around to it.”

Long Kids Interest Fiction Taken Long Time Science Fiction Circles Addict

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Some people are paralyzed by the consciousness of death, other people live with it.... The fatwa certainly made me think about it a lot more than I ever had. I guess I know I'm going to die, but then, so are you.”

People Thinking Knows Made Dies Consciousness Paralyzed

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Everything I see, I now see through a mother's eyes.”

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.”

Ifs Culture Individual Belief Novel Groups Identity Crisis Migration

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.”

Wanted Class Progress Middle Revolution Evolution Transformation Violent Dramatic Middle Class Victorian Cumulative History Of Life

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.”

Believe Looks Capitulation

Author:Salman Rushdie