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
There is nothing like a War for the reinvention of lives...
Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'
After a long, hopeless war, people will settle for peace, at almost any price.
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.
Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are descending into decadence. We will be able to triumph over terrorism not by waging war on it, but through a conscious, fearless way of life.
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, and an indefatigable ally in many struggles.
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
Both are responsible. But I know when I write a book it's my name on the book, so I stand or fall by what I sign. And so must she.