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Salman Rushdie Quotes

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Choose Creation Act Rational Books

I never thought I would be divorced.

Thought Never Would Divorced

I got a young black woman agent, and she kinda just knew what I would be attracted to. She sent me this pilot for 'Insecure.' I never saw myself as a comedy director, but when I read those pages, I said, 'Wow - this is my life on the page.'

Melina Matsoukas

Life Myself Woman Me Black My Life

I grew up craving the spotlight, and once it happened, I immediately recoiled.

Up Spotlight Craving Happened Once

French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn't instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes from different places, from the inside and from the outside.

Beauty Women Me Care Take Care Over

You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping.

Robert Bourassa

People You Need Only Effect Few

I'm still not good at changing nappies, but I do do it.

Good Changing Still

What I can feel the most and what I can remember the most are the melodies I want to write to.

Feel Remember I Can Want Write Most

When I first moved to New York, I had some colleagues who said I should be my straightest self - whatever that means - when I went into casting offices, but I didn't want to put on an act of what I thought was heterosexual. I just wanted to be myself, and I'm very grateful because I feel like I've been embraced for that.

Myself Grateful New York Colleagues

The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy.

Connie Sellecca

Play Kind Hungry Refugee Any Were

A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.

Bruce Dickinson

I Am Conflict Now Iron Gone Been

I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.

Service Travel Wait Thought Hotel

I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'

Myself Architecture Beginning You

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