Friendship I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that... Salman Rushdie 27
Friendship Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as... Salman Rushdie 17
Business This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new... Salman Rushdie 23
Natur An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings. Salman Rushdie 26
Freedom It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions. Salman Rushdie 27
Freedom What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Salman Rushdie 25
Revenge I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature... Salman Rushdie 20
Art Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to... Salman Rushdie 28
