Quotes by : Salman Rushdie

If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.

Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets....

He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the desperation....

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Books choose their authors the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the....

These stories become what we know, what we understand, and what we are, or, perhaps we should say, what....

During, he looked away from all the strain, all the scratchiness, all the fights that never got going,....

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding.....

When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly....