identity Quotes

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

A thing that happens to migrants is that they lose many of the traditional things which root identity, which root the self.

Our lives teach us who we are.

I'm definitely post-something.

I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.