Salman Rushdie Quotes

Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.

Salman Rushdie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CareGoSayWantSheHead

I'm going to have to be impressed and feel confident in the people I'm handing a book to - or I'm not going to do it. Once you hand it to them, you're out. You have no control over it.

Michael Connelly

PeopleControlBookConfidentYou

I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.

John Shelby Spong

I AmChristianTryingUnderstandAm

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

Amish Tripathi

MoneyPurposeWritingYouGetYour

People have become so much more obsessed with the stories behind their food. When we go the market to buy bacon, we want to know where that pig came from and what processes were involved in getting it to us.

Michael Paterniti

FoodPeoplePigKnowWantBecome

I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.

Lorraine Toussaint

WaitingMeAngelReadingSomeone

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

Joyce Maynard

FreePersonStandardsBeingApply

Yoga is 'so hum,' spiritual and all that, and I get it, and I respect that, but that's not what I do. What I do with DDP Yoga, we have changed the face of how it's represented. The spiritual stuff for us is about the power of positivity along with giving people that inner confidence.

Diamond Dallas Page

ConfidencePowerRespectSpiritual

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

Anthony Fauci

TimeDoneNeverTwoSameVaccines

I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.

William Hurt

I CanNewsListenRadioBecauseGet

Believe it or not, I don't wake up looking like a supermodel.

Tyra Banks

LookingWake UpBelieveUpLike

As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.

Nicole Polizzi

MyselfSchoolHappyPeopleMeThink

Obama's not Jesus. He can't walk on water.

Mr. T

WaterWalkHeJesusObama

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