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 Read Quote
If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor’s description and impose themselves on the world – ‘Ulysses,’ ‘Lolita,’ the ‘Arabian Nights.’ Salman Rushdie Read Quote
I’ve been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I’ve always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
What I’ve always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
It’s Kennedy’s war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it’s Kennedy’s war. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
Like everybody else, I’ve had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn’t trust the person I was in love with one inch. Salman Rushdie Read Quote
