The glamour of being forbidden must not be underestimated.
From Salman Rushdie
It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.
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.
If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
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