More Quotes by Salman Rushdie
What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.
Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Faith without doubt is addiction
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.
A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Realism can break a writer's heart.
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.
Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.