Linguagem é uma coragem

Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (احمد سلمان رشدی‎), Bombaim, n. 19 de Junho de 1947.

CLARO, 

"The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both—usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere. It’s a problem that the writer writing about a single place does not have to face. Those writers face other problems, but the thing that a Faulkner or a Welty has—a patch of the earth that they know so profoundly and belong to so totally that they can excavate it all their lives and not exhaust it—I admire that, but it’s not what I do."

E AVISADO.

"Há 50 anos que o Islão se radicalizou. Claro que há uma tradição do Islão esclarecido. Mas hoje em dia não é esse que está no poder. "— entrevista ao L'Obs (antigo Nouvel Observateur).