Salman Rushdie Quotes

This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: June 19, 1947

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I actually have blissfully romantic views of marriage, because that has been my experience of it.

Jez Butterworth

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I don't have assistants and things in the studio.

Jessica Stockholder

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The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.

Andrew Scott

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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

John le Carre

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For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I think it's a time to be sad about what's been done to the United States Senate, the greatest deliberative body in the world.

Mitch McConnell

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I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general.

Luca Guadagnino

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I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.

Lisa Scottoline

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Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn't 'spiritual.' Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

Joyce Meyer

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I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

Jayma Mays

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At times, I will get in the studio and force myself to just write an entire front-to-back record, and 'Let Me Go' is one of these.

Jason Molina

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I always take an Alastair Sawday guide. I stayed in three or four places in India that they had recommended, and every one of them was wonderful.

Diana Quick

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