More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
Realism can break a writer's heart.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
We all owe death a life.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
