Quote

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

Salman Rushdie

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
Actor
Essayist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Bombay
Rushdie
Joseph Anton
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
Rejected
Horrible
Came
Never
World

More quotes by Salman Rushdie

Image
It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
Salman Rushdie
Image
A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.
Salman Rushdie
Image
In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Salman Rushdie
Image
optimism is a disease
Salman Rushdie
Image
Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Hell is other people's fantasies.
Salman Rushdie
Image
And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.
Salman Rushdie
Image
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
Salman Rushdie
Image
If you're offended, it's your problem.
Salman Rushdie
Image
There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.
Salman Rushdie
Image
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
Salman Rushdie
Image
YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I grew up kissing books and bread.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Salman Rushdie
Image
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie
Image
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.
Salman Rushdie