More quotes by Salman Rushdie

"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family."
"I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm unusual among the writers I know in that respect."
"When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]"
"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it."
"Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one."