What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public... →
Salman Rushdie
Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are... →
One of the things I've learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I've... →
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books... →
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes... →
It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my... →
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you... →