Quote

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

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
Way
Bovary
Madame
Untrue
Carpet
Flying
Somebody
Made

More quotes by Salman Rushdie

Image
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Peace, perfect peace, in this dark world of sin? The Blood of Jesus whispers peace within.
Salman Rushdie
Image
This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?
Salman Rushdie
Image
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Fundamentalists of all faiths are the fundamental evil of our time.
Salman Rushdie
Image
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Nobody ever recognizes themselves unless they are not the character. There are many people who have claimed to be in my books, but unfortunately they were usually people that I didn't know.
Salman Rushdie
Image
It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.
Salman Rushdie
Image
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
Salman Rushdie
Image
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.
Salman Rushdie
Image
We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.
Salman Rushdie
Image
We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.
Salman Rushdie
Image
It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humanity.
Salman Rushdie
Image
One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.
Salman Rushdie
Image
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
Salman Rushdie