Salman Rushdie Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Children, World

  "Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1981.

• Children are the vessels into which adults pour their poison.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Adults, Poison

  "Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 7, 2010.

• When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Perspective, Parent

  "Salman Rushdie: My family values". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

• It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Fun, Come Up

  "When life becomes a bad novel". Salon interview, 1996.

• If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Parent, Prejudice

• I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Years, Ideas

• ...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Book, Secret Identity

• I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Spy, Pages

• My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Reading, Mean

  "TalkAsia" with Monita Rajpal, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2013.

• Games sometimes require lateral thinking. They sometimes require quite skilled hand-eye coordination and so on. But they're not in any sense intelligent in the way that you want your children to develop intelligence to make the mind not just supple, but actually informed.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Eye, Intelligent

  Source: bigthink.com

• Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Want, Littles

• One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Nice, Wonderful Friends

• I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Language, Accepting

• I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Reading, Thinking

• We all dream things into being; you imagine yourself having a child, and then you have a child. An inventor will think of something in his mind and then make it actual. So things are often passing from the imagined realm into the real world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Children, Real

• I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.

  Salman Rushdie

  Falling In Love, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.pbs.org

• If you have children you worry about the world you're leaving them.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Worry, Leaving

  "The Bookers' favourite". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

• When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Book, People

• My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mother, Children, My Children

• One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Midnight, Muslim Family

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