Salman Rushdie Quotes

One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeGodYourselfMeThinkPride

Dating is... weird.

Jennifer Coolidge

DatingWeird

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

Matthew Desmond

ThinkPovertyYouHousingLack

I will always enjoy it, that I was one day the Number One, even, like, when I look back in five years.

Angelique Kerber

DayEnjoyLookBackWillOne Day

My friends and family are amazed I've done so well. I was not a model student. No one expected that I'd build a Fortune 500 company at Symantec.

John W. Thompson

FamilyFriends And FamilyFriends

Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

TimeBetterDuckLearnTryingLost

You come out of your MFA program with a cogent clutch of stories, trying to get an agent interested, and she or he admits these are quality, sure, but this agent actually needs something the publisher can make money on. So you get kind of bullied by the market into writing a novel.

Stephen Graham Jones

MoneyQualityWritingTryingYou

I always felt the 'X-Men,' in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.

Stan Lee

IntelligenceRacismBelieveCareWay

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

Tony Campolo

TimeBelieveProcessCreationBelief

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Robert Frost

LegalSuccessfulPolicemanLawsuit

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

Michelle Obama

FuturePerformanceYouTestHere

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

Drew Carey

LearningLiveI CanSalaryWay

The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.

Aubrey de Grey

LiveOpportunityBestDieChoose

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