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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Indian - Novelist | June 19, 1947 -

I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

Reading Enjoy Write Shoulder Behind

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

Time Art Experience Seems Exist

You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.

You Want Gone Stick Books Your

Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

Children Want Little Scared Being

I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore, and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

Funny I Am Fun Violence You Say

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

Good Saying Voice Story Worst Head

People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

Beach People Me Reading Subway Seen

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

West Being Iran Extent Regime

The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

Mistake Control World Islam Oil

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

Good Pretty Ruthless Chinese About

I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

Work Great Literature First Reason

I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

Live Simple Think Universe Wish

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