Salman Rushdie

Date of Birth:

19-Jun-1947

Nationality:

Andorra

Profession:

Salman Rushdie is a renowned British Indian novelist and essayist, known as the most controversial novelist of the 20th century. He was born in Bombay, British India, in a wealthy family and pursued his graduation from the University of Cambridge. He debuted in his writing career with ‘Grimus’ which was a great blend of fantasy and science fiction but was not successful. He hit back the literary world with his next book titled ‘Midnight's Children’ which was very successful. In this book he portrayed the history of India from the perspective of a laborer. This book was honored with some of the most renowned awards including the ‘Booker Prize’ and the ‘James Tait Black Memorial Prize’. He further published ‘The Satanic Verses’ which continues to be the most controversial book of his career and it also brought him various accolades including the ‘Whitbread Book Award’. The book was condemned for blasphemy against Islam and a bounty was announced for his head by the Islamic leader of Iran. These controversies could not stop him from writing and expressing his thoughts through his books and novels. He successfully published his works to justify his reputation as a writer. Salman Rushdie is quite often in the news for his radical views; he also shares his views on several political, social, religious and literary issues. We have compiled his quotes from his novels, writings, speeches, interviews and his general life. Take a look at the quotes and thoughts by Salman Rushdie who has a completely different take on religion and world.

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QUOTES BY Salman Rushdie

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

We all owe death a life.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

Faith without doubt is addiction