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
I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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 Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
In today's U.S., it's possible for almost anyone - women, gays, African-Americans, Jews - to run for, and be elected to, high office.
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.