Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.
Salman RushdieWhen 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 want.
Salman RushdieThere are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.
Salman RushdieI became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.
Salman RushdieThe thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That I think is valuable. In terms of actually tweeting myself, I have just lost enthusiasm for it. Maybe I'll do some of it this week to tell people about the PEN Festival and encourage them to show up.
Salman Rushdie