I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
One of the reasons some people get so angry with me is because I have the space now that a lot of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Here they learned to Wait. To Watch. To think thoughts and not voice them. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Thinking made her throat ache. That was a good reason not to think about seeing a psychiatrist.” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think it was 50 million people across the world who marched against the war in Iraq. It was perhaps the biggest… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I don't think the state will allow people to occupy a particular space unless it feels that allowing that will end up… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I firstly don't think of myself as an activist, I never have. I always say that, I think this word "activist" is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When you think of how much violence, how much blood... how much has been destroyed to create the great nations, America, Australia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People say to me, Oh, it's so wonderful that you're writing about real things, and that it's a political thing to do,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
All my books are accidental books - they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
They looked at each other. They weren't thinking anymore. The time for that had come and gone. Smashed smiles lay ahead of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
People can be extraordinarily resilient and show extraordinary grace and humour even in moments of tribulation. I've always found that it's much… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
I've never been that person who thought that because I've written one novel, I should write another and another. It's only when there was… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of simple political ideas. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It’s a good idea in this car-maddened city,” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
