104 ordspråk av Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
 'That's the right answer.' And he said, 'If there's anything you would like to ask me about my writing, I would be happy to reply.' I think the little bastard might well be a writer! |
| A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. |
| A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. |
| After the eastern tsunami and the western hurricanes, this is not incomprehensible. But the people of Kashmir deserve better than they are getting. |
| Always do something impossible right at the beginning of the show?. Swallow a sword, tie yourself in a knot, defy gravity. Do what the audience knows it could never do no matter how hard it tries. After that you'll have them eating out of your hand. |
| And now, as if to finish things off, the Himalayan winter is setting in, and the greatest calamity of all may lie ahead of us, not behind, |
| And now, as if to finish things off, the Himalayan winter is setting in, and the greatest calamity of all may lie ahead of us, not behind. |
| antediluvian, who think of homosexuality as ungodly, who have little time for real freedom of expression, who routinely express anti-Semitic views, and who, in the case of the Muslim Diaspora, are -- it has to be said -- in many ways at odds with the cultures among which they live. |
| Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. |
| became a way of life. |
| Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. |
| Both are responsible. But I know when I write a book it's my name on the book, so I stand or fall by what I sign. And so must she. |
| For the record, there is a French project to make a theatrical adaptation of The Satanic Verses, so maybe that's a start. |
| Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. |
| From such defensive, separated worlds some youngsters have indefensibly stepped across a moral line and taken up their lethal rucksacks, ... The deeper alienations that lead to terrorism may have their roots in these young men's objections to events in Iraq or elsewhere, but the closed communities of some traditional Western Muslims are places in which young men's alienations can easily deepen. |
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