Salman Rushdie Stories Quotations

Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.

An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.

The difference between memoir and autobiography, as far as I see it, is that a memoir is there primarily to tell one particular story, whereas an autobiography tries to be a full account of a life.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

We are the only animals that tell stories to understand the world we live in.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

As human knowledge has grown, it has also become plain that every religious story ever told about how we got here is quite simply wrong. This, finally, is what all religions have in common. They didn't get it right.

When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories.

No story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old.

Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

I'm not a big fan of there being voiceovers in movies. I really prefer it when the film tells it story.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Nothing comes from nothing, Thieflet; no story comes from nowhere; new stories are born from old--it is the new combinations that make them new.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.

What's the use of stories that aren't even true?

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.