Quote

Ignorantly is how we all fall in love for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

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
Stills
Leap
Still
Soft
Without
Nobody
Kind
Eyes
Ignorantly
Always
Eye
Cliff
Love
Hope
Cliffs
Life
Fall
Landing
Comes
Closing

More quotes by Salman Rushdie

Image
The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.
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
I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
Salman Rushdie
Image
You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I grew up kissing books and bread.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
Salman Rushdie
Image
At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
Salman Rushdie
Image
We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
Salman Rushdie
Image
With death comes honesty.
Salman Rushdie
Image
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
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
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
Salman Rushdie
Image
I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
Salman Rushdie
Image
It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
Salman Rushdie