Quotes About Rushdie

Parts of India treat Rushdie like he's a rock star; we especially like boasting about him to our Western friends and acquaintances. It's nice to act like one of the world's most successful authors is as homespun as our handloom saris.

One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

Nobody ever wanted to go to war, but if a war came your way, it might as well be the right war, about the most important things in the world, and you might as well, if you were going to fight it, be called Rushdie, and stand where your father had placed you, in the tradition of the grand Aristotelian, Averroës, Abul Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd.

The world is not ideas, rich kid, the world is things. If you have things, you have time to dream, if you don't... You'll fight.

the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

That's how it was when I was ten: nothing but trouble outside my head, nothing but miracles inside it.

a creature with white skin and green hair and bright, bright red lips

Hatred stupidity devotion greed the four horsemen of the new apocalypse.

I never asked him if he screamed, or if there were upside-down mountain peaks visible through a window.

This thing: information got abolished sometime in the twentieth century, can't say just when; stands to reason, that's part of the information that got abolsh, abolished. Since then we've been living in a fairy-story.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

A long, negative review I wrote of Rushdie's novel 'Fury' earned me a rebuke from the writer: He told an administrator at the college where I teach, and who had invited Rushdie to come speak, that he wouldn't share the stage with me.

Rushdie is a hostage.

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.

To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical conscience, is to stand against those who try to incubate a Reformation in the Muslim world.

I am no Rushdie. The only people who think of silencing me are my students, on days when my lectures are more opaque than usual.