More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
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.
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.
I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.
Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.
To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?
Realism can break a writer's heart.
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Faith without doubt is addiction
