Salman Rushdie Quotes about Imagination

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Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Salman Rushdie

Heart, Imagination, Literature

The Hindu, February 26, 1995.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Without the freedom to challenge, even to satirize all orthodoxies, it ceases to exist. Language and the imagination cannot be imprisoned, or art will die, and with it, a little of what makes us human.

Salman Rushdie

Art, Expression, Imagination

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

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Salman Rushdie

Art, Imagination, Firsts

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

Salman Rushdie

Thinking, Doors, Imagination

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

Salman Rushdie

Dream, Real, Imagination

Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

The worst, most insidious effect of censorship is that, in the end, it can deaden the imagination of the people. Where there is no debate, it is hard to go on remembering, every day, that there is a suppressed side to every argument.

Salman Rushdie

Death, People, Imagination

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

Salman Rushdie

Thinking, Imagination, Bombay