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Salman Rushdie

Someone asked me if I was afr...

Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

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Salman Rushdie

I think that England made a v...

I think that England made a very big, historical mistake to allow itself to become the kind of terrorist capital of the world.

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Salman Rushdie

We cannot allow religious hoo...

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

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Salman Rushdie

Whenever I write something, I...

Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.

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Salman Rushdie

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' w...

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

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Salman Rushdie

I don't read my books, I writ...

I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

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Salman Rushdie

Sometimes when you finish a b...

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

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Salman Rushdie

I was very happy in Bombay. I...

I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.

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Salman Rushdie

The only thing worse than a b...

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

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Salman Rushdie

This is going to make me soun...

This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

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Salman Rushdie

When I was writing 'The Satan...

When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

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Salman Rushdie

I only met Margaret Thatcher ...

I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.

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Salman Rushdie

The way you write a screenpla...

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.

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Salman Rushdie

I am clearly vulnerable to th...

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

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Salman Rushdie

The reason why books endure i...

The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

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Salman Rushdie

There are two things in India...

There are two things in Indian history - one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential - for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.

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Salman Rushdie

I am on Facebook, but mainly ...

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

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Salman Rushdie

Discovery is fun. I am incred...

Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.

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Salman Rushdie

When you start writing about ...

When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.

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Salman Rushdie

We live in a frightened time,...

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

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