Quotes by Rushdie, Salman

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. >>

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make th >>

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or >>

Quotations about Literature

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary la >>

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the orde >>

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays. >>

Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

Rushdie, Salman