Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British Author Quotes

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

I used to say: "there is a God-shaped hole in me." For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

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.

Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?

Freedom is a spaniel that becomes weak and fat when it doesn't get to move.

You might argue my parents' gift (of godlessness... not caring which gods others held dear) was a poisoned chalice.

I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

(She was) the eff of ineffable.

They were following her star.

Already their eyes were making love.