Salman Rushdie Quotes

A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PurposeSayUnderstandOurOur Lives

I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.

Jess Row

JusticeSayingThinkPoliticalDone

I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

Mel Tillis

WorkWillFairTwoHereDates

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

Robert Mugabe

UnityCountryNationStayUsPlease

I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking.

Matthew Heineman

PeopleThinkThinkingPoliticalWant

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

Anna Julia Cooper

NothingNaturalUnworthyWholly

For so many years, people have used the expression 'poster boy of British MMA,' but I've never seen myself as that; I certainly never described myself as that.

Michael Bisping

MyselfPeopleBoyNeverYearsMMA

I try to stop my students doing random things on the Internet or putting work online. It doesn't get them jobs. This concept of being noticed, I don't know what it brings you.

Louise Wilson

WorkRandomInternetDoingYouStop

We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

LifeCreativeProcessResultWhyUs

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

Chuck Palahniuk

WhySeemLivesWriters

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

Bobby Knight

MeChanceGivingSaidWhyTalk

I used to stay up, stupidly, to work, and I'd just eat to keep my eyes open. I wasn't even hungry - it was just a way to power through.

Arianna Huffington

WorkPowerEyesWayEatOpen

But the real interesting stuff is in the cellar and the attic.

Sherman Alexie

InterestingRealStuffAtticCellar

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