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
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
Things, even people have a way of leaking into each other like flavours when you cook.
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years..,
I used to say: ''there is a God-shaped hole in me.'' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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.