Midnight Children Salman Rushdie Quotes

#1. My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I'm, you know, I'm happy for.

Salman Rushdie

#2. When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.

Madeline Zima

#3. His eyes flashed open. Is it so unbearable to have me love you? Is that it?

Stephenie Meyer

#4. Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

Salman Rushdie

#5. At last,' Padma says with satisfaction, 'you've learned how to tell things really fast.

Salman Rushdie

#6. I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.

Abbi Glines

#7. When you have city eyes you cannot see the invisible people, the men with elephantiasis of the balls and the beggars in boxcars don't impinge on you, and the concrete sections of future drainpipes don't look like dormitories.

Salman Rushdie

#8. The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Alexander Pope

#9. Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

C.S. Lewis

#10. She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.

Catherynne M Valente

#11. I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.

Salman Rushdie

#12. OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2 ... priceless.

Salman Rushdie

#13. When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.

Salman Rushdie

#14. Midnight has many children; the offspring of Independence were not all human. Violence, corruption, poverty, generals, chaos, greed and pepperpot ... I had to go into exile to learn that the children of midnight were more varied that I - even I - had dreamed.

Salman Rushdie

#15. Have you ever done anything in your life without wondering how it looked to someone else? Do you know what it is to do something as simple as genuinely smile or laugh without trying to see it through another person's eyes? I feel exhausted for you.

Hope Denney

#16. Winner of the "Booker of Bookers," Midnight's Children is the novel that can be said to have done for Indian literature what One Hundred Years of Solitude did for the literature of the Americas, exciting a boom whose echoes have yet to fade.

Salman Rushdie

#17. One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

Salman Rushdie