Salman Rushdie Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced.

  Salman Rushdie

  Falling In Love, Book, Essence

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

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Creation

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “In good faith”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• A book is not completed till it's read.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book

• What had been (at the beginning) no bigger than a full stop had expanded into a comma, a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter; now it was bursting into more complex developments, becoming, one might say, a book - perhaps an encylopaedia - even a whole language.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Becoming One, Development

  Salman Rushdie (2010). “Midnight's Children”, p.133, Random House

• It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Offended You, Easy

• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Events, Publishing

• I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Play, Stories

• Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Ideas, Fiction

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

• The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Book, Fall

• I grew up kissing books and bread.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Kissing

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

• I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and politics and music and film, and developing, too, a certain skill in manipulating and arranging these pitiful shards so that they glittered and caught the light. Fool's gold, or priceless nuggets mined from my singular childhood's rich bohemian seam? I leave it to others to decide.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Book, Light

  Salman Rushdie (2011). “The Moor's Last Sigh”, p.240, Random House

• In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Demand

• Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading

• It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Mean, Always Trying

  "'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2005.

• People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.

  Salman Rushdie

  Beach, Book, Reading

• I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Book, Writing

• I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

  Salman Rushdie

  Moving, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I thought, you know, I would probably not have seen that. On the other hand, he's obviously completely telling the truth. So, then what is that? That's - I wanted to explore that. And then I wanted to talk about how ideas are born. And the big question that the book asks in a number of ways about a number of things is that. How does a new idea come into the world?

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Ideas, Numbers

• Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Sometimes, Knows

• 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

  Book, Pride, Thinking

• It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Important, India

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

• I always thought the front line was the bookstores. And bookstores around America, around the world did astonishingly well. They held the line. They didn't chicken out. You know, they defended the book. They kept it in the front of the store.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, America, Lines

• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Character, Culture

• Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Salman Rushdie brings 'Midnight's Children' to big screen". Interview with Matt Carey, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2013.

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