Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmad Salman Rushdie, FRSL, احمد سلمان رشدی; born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight's Children, won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 June 1947
CityMumbai, India
CountryIndia
There'll be one track that I like and a lot of it that is just wallpaper and sounds the same.
I've been gradually reclaiming all kinds of freedoms over these years..,
I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
Life is fury, he'd thought. Fury sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths. Out of furia comes creation, inspiration, originality, passion, but also violence, pain, pure unafraid destruction, the giving and receiving of blows from which we never recover. The Furies pursue us; Shiva dances his furious dance to create and also to destroy. But never mind about gods! Sara ranting at him represented the human spirit in its purest, least socialized form. This is what we are, what we civilize ourselves to disguise the terrifying human animal in us, the exalted, transcendent, self-destructive, untramelled lord of creation.
For the record, there is a French project to make a theatrical adaptation of The Satanic Verses, so maybe that's a start.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and murdered by Islamic fanatics, accused of exactly the same things that I was, these medieval crimes of apostasy And heresy, but then broadening from that into a broader attack on all of us.
faith without doubt is addiction
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.
What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?
YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.