Human beings, you see, do absolutely two primary things. We see like and unlike. Like becomes, in literature, simile and metaphor. Unlike becomes uniqueness and difference, from which I believe, the novel is born.
Salman RushdieThe way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
Salman RushdieThere is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.
Salman RushdieOne of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Salman RushdiePeople would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.
Salman Rushdie