Rushdie

Famous quotes containing the word rushdie:

“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)

“Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)