"I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know."

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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.

— Salman Rushdie