Salman Rushdie Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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)

• 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)

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

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading

• The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fashion, Fall, Reading

• 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

• I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Grew Up

• 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.

• I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Writing

• I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

• 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 can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Numbers

• 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.

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