Rushdie Quotes

• So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

  Salman Rushdie

  Names, India, World

  "La religión, como siempre, es el veneno en la sangre de la India", por Salman Rushdie, www.theguardian.com. 8 de marzo de 2002.

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• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Writing, Creation

  Salman Rushdie (1990). "De buena fe", Penguin (No clásicos)

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• Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing.

  Cat Stevens

  Real, Demonstration, Having Hope

  "Cat Stevens Gives Support To Call for Death of Rushdie" by Craig R. Whitney, p. C18, archive.nytimes.com. May 23, 1989.

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

  Imran Khan

  Islamic, Pakistan, Agents

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• It's rare that you get to read, let alone teach, an arbitrary canon of your choosing in a tight time setting, and I tore through a fairly wide range of Indian writers, some contemporary - like Arundhati Roy and Salman Rushdie - and others older, like R.K. Narayan. And I think what happened at that stage was that I was forced to take a position in my own writing style that was more fixed, as opposed to reading a book at a time and defining myself in opposition to or in awe of it.

  Karan Mahajan

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• La fatwa con la que probablemente todo el mundo esté familiarizado es la de Salman Rushdie, pero una fatwa no tiene por qué ser algo violento en absoluto. Una fatwa es simplemente una norma de la ley islámica; puede haber fatwas sobre la ropa.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Islamic, Violent, Familiar

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do not read the works of Salman Rushdie, I write them. By the time I have finished writing them all I can think of is never reading them again. It's so deep, your involvement with a book, that once it's finished, then you are really done with it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

  Fuente: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It was a very funny conference. I knew [Christopher Hitchens] before that. He had always been a good angel to me. He once stole a phrase from me that came out of his mouth on television. I saw his eyes move sideways. I thought, It's alright, you can have it! The conference was light on women. Salman Rushdie showed up, they were doing their own thing. I didn't feel neglected!

  Hilary Mantel

  Mudanza, Ojo, Ángel

  Fuente: newrepublic.com

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• I also know Patrick White in Australia, both personally and as a writer, and Salman Rushdie in India.

  William Golding

  White, Australia, India

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic Verses is a blasphemous book. I did not consider the book as being a great read, but as an intellectual I read, I assess, and I respond. I make a difference between true freedom of expression to which we owe a response and provocation, which we ignore.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Distance, Book, Thinking

  "'¿Quieres mi reacción? Tendrás mi silencio'". Entrevista con Lars Mensel, Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. 19 de noviembre de 2012.

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• I have much more power and protection than Salman Rushdie, because I'm an American citizen, but yes, I live in terrible fear for my life and for the lives of my children. My whole family has been threatened, my adoptive parents had to sell their house and move out of Washington, D.C. because of death threats caused by my work and activism.

  Kola Boof

  Children, Moving, Parent

  "Kola Boof: Palabras con el autor del mejor libro negro de 2006". Entrevista con Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Defender a Salmon Rushdie] era, si puedo expresarlo así, una cuestión de todo lo que odiaba frente a todo lo que amaba. En la columna del odio: dictadura, religión, estupidez, demagogia, censura, acoso e intimidación. En la columna del amor: la literatura, la ironía, el humor, el individuo y la defensa de la libertad de expresión.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Intimidación, odio, expresión

  "Rushdie y después", por David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. 16 de septiembre de 2012.

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• My father decided that he was such a admirer of Ibn Rushd's philosophy, thinking that he changed the family name to Rushdie. I realized why my father was so interested in him, because he was really an incredibly modernizing voice inside our Islamic culture.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Philosophy, Islamic

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• En el islam hay una línea que separa la libertad de la inmoralidad y la irresponsabilidad, y creo que este escritor, por desgracia, ha sido irresponsable con su libertad de expresión. Salman Rushdie o cualquier escritor que abuse del profeta, o de cualquier profeta, bajo la ley islámica, la sentencia es la muerte. Tiene que servir de disuasión, para que otras personas no vuelvan a cometer el mismo error.

  Cat Stevens

  Error, Islámico, Pensamiento

  "Yussuf Islam, ex Cat Stevens, expresa su apoyo a la condena a muerte de Rushdie". The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.

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• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Names, West

  "Salman Rushdie: Inside the Mind of Jihadists". Interview with Nathan Gardels, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• When I was starting out, science fiction was a little genre over there, which only a few people read. But now -- where are you going to put, for example, Salman Rushdie? Or any of the South American writers? Most people get by calling them magical realists.

  Doris Lessing

  People, Example, Fiction

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• Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

  Jo Nesbo

  Crime Novels, Names, Fiction

  "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

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• Durante mucho tiempo me ha gustado la ficción fabulista e imaginativa, como la de Italo Calvino, José Saramago, Michael Bulgakov y Salman Rushdie. También me gustan los escritores realistas mágicos, como Borges y Márquez, y creo que se pueden aprender verdades interesantes sobre nuestro mundo explorando mundos muy distorsionados.

  Alan Lightman

  Writing, Our World, Long

  ""Mr g," by Alan Lightman". Interview with Jeff Glor, www.cbsnews.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Rushdie is a hostage.

  Don DeLillo

  Rehén

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• She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

  Salman Rushdie

  Lost, Dynamite

  Salman Rushdie (1989). "Los versos satánicos", New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

  Cat Stevens

  Islamic, Law, Abuse

  "Yussuf Islam, ex Cat Stevens, expresa su apoyo a la condena a muerte de Rushdie". The Christian Science Monitor, 1989.

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