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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.Collection: Salman
Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.Collection: Salman
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.Collection: Salman
Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.Collection: Salman
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.Collection: Salman
The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.Collection: Salman
In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.Collection: Salman
The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.Collection: Salman
The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.Collection: Salman
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.Collection: Salman
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.Collection: Salman
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.Collection: Salman
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.Collection: Salman
We are the storytelling animal.Collection: Salman
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.Collection: Salman
What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.Collection: Salman
It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.Collection: Salman
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.Collection: Salman
If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.Collection: Salman
One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'Collection: Salman
Nothing is unfilmable.Collection: Salman
When you have children, your perspective on the parent-child relationship alters.Collection: Salman
There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.Collection: Salman
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.Collection: Salman
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.Collection: Salman
I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.Collection: Salman
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.Collection: Salman
I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.Collection: Salman
Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.Collection: Salman
Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.Collection: Salman
Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.Collection: Salman
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.Collection: Salman
The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.Collection: Salman
It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.Collection: Salman
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.Collection: Salman
The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.Collection: Salman
The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.Collection: Salman
Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.Collection: Salman
All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.Collection: Salman
The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.Collection: Salman
The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.Collection: Salman
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.Collection: Salman
Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.Collection: Salman
If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.Collection: Salman
Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'Collection: Salman
The thing that always attracted me to New York was the sense of being in a place where a lot of people had a lot of stories not unlike mine. Everybody comes from somewhere else. Everyone's got a Polish grandmother, some kind of metamorphosis in their family circumstances. That's a very big thing - the experience of not living where you started.Collection: Salman
Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.Collection: Salman
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.Collection: Salman
I did a lot of student acting when I was young.Collection: Salman
There was a series called 'Game of Thrones' which was very popular here in the United States, a post-Tolkien kind of thing. It was garbage, yet very addictive garbage - because there's lots of violence, all the women take their clothes off all the time, and it's kind of fun.Collection: Salman