Salman Rushdie Quotes

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

There are stories I wanted to tell, and they are not defined by what I look like.

Wherever you repress people, they get hold of a crayon and a bit of scrap paper, and they chronicle their lives and their existence and their history.

In my everyday life, I can be as square as I want. But when it comes to movies and telling stories, I can't. I've got to be radical, and on some level, that's what I like to do.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

I read a lot growing up. It was kind of my comfort, you know; I loved it. I love story. I love narrative. I was academic. I wasn't particularly athletic. I didn't make the drill team. I didn't go out for sports.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

Every kid has a story to tell!

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.

I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

My greatest joy comes from creativity: from feeling that I have been able to identify a certain aspect of human nature and crystallise a phenomenon in words.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.

Write whatever you like!