Salman Rushdie Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.”

“Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.”

“Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.”

“The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.”

“I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.”

“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”

“When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.”

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.”

“If you're offended, it's your problem.”

“If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.”