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Salman Rushdie Quotes - Page 17

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The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

Freedom, Struggle, Doe

Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

Lying, Vision, Delight

Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

Children, Book, People

The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that and then I put it out there and say to you, "What do you think?" I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

Thinking, Trying, Literature

"I'm returning to India, deal with it - Salman Rushdie to NDTV". Interview with Barkha Dutt, www.ndtv.com. January 25, 2012.

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

Hate, Ku Klux Klan, Groups

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.

Indulge In, Enemy, Important

"Salman Rushdie Discusses The Role Of The Novel In The Era Of 24-Hour News In Talk At CU-Boulder" by Joe Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

Hollywood, Cinema, Coming Out

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

Employee, Servant

"Salman Rushdie says TV dramas comparable to novels". www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2011.

Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

"Salman Rushdie on His New Soundtrack, Sci-Fi Project and Memoir" by Alexandra Alter, blogs.wsj.com. February 9, 2012.

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

Children, Midnight, Muslim Family

Most American writers don't get asked their opinion on current affairs, whereas in Europe and England, we still do. There are writers here who are the most sophisticated commentators, but they're not asked. Like Don DeLillo, who sort of forecast most of the modern world before it happened.

Europe, England, World

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?

Book, Writing, Years

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

Father, Years, Difficult Relationship

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

Book, Reading, Grew Up

What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

Stupid, Thinking, Law

We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

Dream, Children, Real

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

Atmosphere, Details, World

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

Acting, Students, Young

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.

Beach, Sound, Gone

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Church, Enlightenment, Weapons

"Salman Rushdie: the fatwa, Islamic fundamentalism and Joseph Anton". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

Fighting, Hands, Play

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

Children, Reading, Thinking

The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine,' Rushdie says. 'Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.

New York, Grandmother, Somewhere Else

"Manhattan transfer". Interview with D.T. Max, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2000.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

Chinese, Ruthless, Repression

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.

World Religions, Historical, Islam

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