Salman Rushdie quotes - Page : 3

" Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy. " # Blasphemy

" The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it --when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared. " # Books - Reading # Arts and Artists # Risk

" When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. " # Thoughts and Thinking # Action # Pain

" Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive. " # Writers and Writing # Forgiveness # Prostitution

" Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. " # Writers and Writing # Politicians and Politics # Nations

" I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it. " # Writers and Writing # Change # Learning

" Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. " # Writers and Writing # Books - Reading # Mind

" We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs. " # Communism and Socialism # Politicians and Politics # Failure

" I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important. " # Conversion # Absence # God