Salman Rushdie Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.”

“The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.”

“In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.”

“I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.”

“If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.”

“We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.”

“Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.”

“Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.”

“The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.”

“The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.”