Salman Rushdie

(1947–) · British-Indian Novelist

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American novelist known for his controversial work that blends magical realism and historical fiction.

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Salman Rushdie

(1947–) · British-Indian Novelist

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian-born British-American novelist known for his controversial work that blends magical realism and historical fiction.

Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.
I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
Cruelty is not a literary value.
The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear.
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

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