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
Carpet
Flying
Somebody
Made
Way
Bovary
Madame
Untrue

More quotes by Salman Rushdie

Image
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.
Salman Rushdie
Image
But I - and I just think it's very - one of the problems of defending the extraordinary principle of freedom of speech is that you have to defend freedom of speech for people like that too.
Salman Rushdie
Image
If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
Salman Rushdie
Image
India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.
Salman Rushdie
Image
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?
Salman Rushdie
Image
Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I will come back to India - so deal with it.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
Salman Rushdie
Image
How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don't prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn't prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.
Salman Rushdie
Image
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
Salman Rushdie
Image
One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
Salman Rushdie
Image
Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.
Salman Rushdie
Image
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
Salman Rushdie
Image
I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.
Salman Rushdie