Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!
So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.
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.
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