Salman Rushdie Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“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.”

“The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.”

“When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.”

“I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.”

“Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.”

“Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.”

“It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.”

“American literature has always been immigrant.”

“Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.”

“Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.”