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Salman Rushdie Quotes

«Is that a threat?»
«For the record, there is a French project to make a theatrical adaptation of The Satanic Verses, so maybe that's a start.»
«When I finished the book I thought this actually does have echoes for the modern world in all sorts of places, ... The Satanic Verses.»
«'That's the right answer.' And he said, 'If there's anything you would like to ask me about my writing, I would be happy to reply.' I think the little bastard might well be a writer!»
«somebody always went in the house first, to check it out.»
«There'll be one track that I like and a lot of it that is just wallpaper and sounds the same.»
«It was because it was easier to blame me, ... You know, 'Why is he rocking the boat?' In those days there was a lot of that stuff. He was asking for it. He did it on purpose. He was begging for it. It was just conventional blaming-the-victim stuff. I don't like the term 'victim' when applied to myself. Certainly I felt the guilt burden had shifted from the people doing the violence to the person on the receiving end of the violence.»
«Always do something impossible right at the beginning of the show?. Swallow a sword, tie yourself in a knot, defy gravity. Do what the audience knows it could never do no matter how hard it tries. After that you'll have them eating out of your hand.»
«It's still open season on writers,»
«While they have made some concessions to the West, China's leaders have not shown much interest in freedom of speech.»

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