The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
It’s true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don’t like the glare of negative publicity. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there’s just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it’s the balance of that that’s difficult to achieve. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You’ve got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
