Quote

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.

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
Dream
Someone
Need
Needs
Believe
Men
Invents
Love
Believed
Another

More quotes by Salman Rushdie

Image
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
Salman Rushdie
Image
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
Salman Rushdie
Image
American literature has always been immigrant.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.
Salman Rushdie
Image
One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.
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
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images they fight for the same territory.
Salman Rushdie
Image
All names mean something.
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
I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.
Salman Rushdie
Image
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
Salman Rushdie
Image
It is commonly and, I believe, accurately said of Pakistan that her women are much more impressive than her men.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)
Salman Rushdie
Image
The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
Salman Rushdie
Image
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
Salman Rushdie
Image
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
Salman Rushdie