Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words wi…

Salman Rushdie
460 citations
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2000). The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel, p.38, Macmillan
Death Humanity Reading
16

More Author Quotes

optimism is a disease
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop rea … ▶
Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be a … ▶

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones. ✨ Salman Rushdie (2000). The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel, p.38, Macmillan

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes