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What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

When you know what you're against you have taken the first step to discovering what you're for.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

A sigh isn't just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.

I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

A man is sane only to the extent that he subscribes to a previously-agreed construction of reality.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

I discovered that if you find the language to talk to younger readers, children can accept anything.

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

I want to write novels. I want to write stories. I want to do the stuff that I became a writer to do.

Once you get that instinct for the fictiveness, the fictionality of fiction, it kind of sets you free.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.

The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.

The west was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

One either loves, or waits for love, or banishes love for good. That is the full range of possible choices.

Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.

I'm no friend of Tony Blair's and I consider the Middle East policies of the United States and the UK fatal.

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture.

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