Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmad Salman Rushdie, FRSL, احمد سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 June 1947
CityMumbai, India
CountryIndia
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.
I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.
British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one.
A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.
Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.