Talk:Salman Rushdie

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Salman Rushdie page.
Please sign and date your posts using four tildes (~~~~). New discussion topics go at the bottom of the page; click here to start a new topic. New to Wikiquote? Welcome! Frequently asked questions. This is not a forum for general discussion about the page's subject.	Talk page guidelines Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Don't bite the newcomers!

---

Unsourced

Published sources should be provided before moving these back into the article

• A writer's home address has little or nothing to do with his ability to write.

• If we allow ourselves to be terrorized by fear of the terrorists, then they have won.
  • In an interview explaining how he managed to maintain a near normal life despite having a fatwa placed upon him.

• In regards to that unpleasantness between me and the Ayatollah some years ago... one of us is dead.
  • From an address at the University of Iowa, 2004

• Orgasmically joyful.
  • When asked how he felt about his upcoming knighthood, during an address given at Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington (November 2007)

• The ability to be frivolous in a serious time is not to be underestimated.

• Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people. I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it. To read a 600-page novel and then say that it has deeply offended you: well, you have done a lot of work to be offended. – OttoMäkelä (talk) 10:46, 22 January 2014 (UTC)

• Fundamentalism isn't about religion. It's about power. – OttoMäkelä (talk) 10:46, 22 January 2014 (UTC)