If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent. Salman Rushdie Failure
I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect. Salman Rushdie Friendship
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters. Salman Rushdie Relationship
A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one. Salman Rushdie Relationship
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running. Salman Rushdie Family
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.' Salman Rushdie Fear
If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow. Salman Rushdie Movies
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 Trust
Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace. Salman Rushdie Peace
The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives. Salman Rushdie Imagination
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings. Salman Rushdie Nature
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions. Salman Rushdie Freedom
If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream. Salman Rushdie Freedom
Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country. Salman Rushdie Freedom
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too. Salman Rushdie Movies
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Salman Rushdie Freedom
I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story. Salman Rushdie Movies
When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book. Salman Rushdie History
I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way. Salman Rushdie Learning
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else. Salman Rushdie Learning
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 Religion