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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
— Salman Rushdie
To know one man's story you have to swallow the world.
— Salman Rushdie
I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.
— Salman Rushdie
If a hungry dog looks for food, he does not look in the doghouse.
— Salman Rushdie
The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
— Salman Rushdie
Peace broke out.
— Salman Rushdie
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
— Salman Rushdie
In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.
— Salman Rushdie
Naught but love makes magic real.
— Salman Rushdie
No, sir. A sin. A suchmuch thing.
— Salman Rushdie
It isn't right for the artist to become the servant of the state.
— Salman Rushdie
We can best understand the nature of this culture if we say that it found its truest mirror in a corpse
— Salman Rushdie
A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
— Salman Rushdie
I'm a novelist. Fortunately I don't have to rule the world.
— Salman Rushdie
We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.
— Salman Rushdie
Beware, the light seemed to say, for I come to burn and judge.
— Salman Rushdie
Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.
— Salman Rushdie
I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.
— Salman Rushdie
I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
— Salman Rushdie
They were deeply in love, which beats earplugs.
— Salman Rushdie
They feared her [the dream beloved], knowing that, being impossible, she was irresistable, and that was why the king loved her best.
— Salman Rushdie
What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.
— Salman Rushdie
For, as the myths tell us, it is by defying the gods that human beings have best expressed their humanity.
— Salman Rushdie
My position as the best-selling author at E! is secure - unless Salman Rushdie develops a show with them.
— Chelsea Handler
Honesty is not the best policy in life. Only, perhaps, in art.
— Salman Rushdie
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
— Salman Rushdie
Human sanity was a poor, fragile thing at best,
— Salman Rushdie
I thought, let the best minds of my generation soliloquize about power over some other poor woman's body, I'm off.
— Salman Rushdie
Until you know who you are you can't write.
— Salman Rushdie
We are the creature that tells itself stories to understand what sort of creature it is.
— Salman Rushdie
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
— Salman Rushdie
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
What would a respectful political cartoon look like?
— Salman Rushdie
It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.
— Salman Rushdie
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
— Salman Rushdie
Freedom to reject is the only freedom.
— Salman Rushdie
Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream.
— Salman Rushdie
Montgomery Clift in I Confess?
— Salman Rushdie
Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
— Salman Rushdie
This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .
— Salman Rushdie
To see things plainly, you have to cross a frontier.
— Salman Rushdie
but something was given in exchange for what was lost
— Salman Rushdie
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
— Salman Rushdie
Life is lived forward but is judged in reverse.
— Salman Rushdie
To reflect is to regain a little, lost sense of proportion
— Salman Rushdie
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
— Salman Rushdie
Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies
— Salman Rushdie