Quotes by Rushdie, Salman

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 >>

Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention >>

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! a mes >>

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. >>

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.

Rushdie, Salman