The people who are getting rich can't imagine that the world is not a better place. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated? — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Your short-term gains are the rest of the world's long-term disasters - for everybody, including yourselves. And, I'm sorry, I've been saying… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When the United States invaded Iraq, a New York Times/CBS News survey estimated that 42 percent of the American public believed that… — 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
It's odd how those who dismiss the peace movement as utopian, don't hesitate to proffer the most absurdly dreamy reasons for going… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, it is not a choice at all...… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When was the last time the United States won a war? You know, it lost in Vietnam. It's lost in Afghanistan. It's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly.… — 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
Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I know that a world in which countries are stockpiling nuclear weapons and using them in the ways that India and Pakistan… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing… — 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
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Cage the People, Free the Money. The only thing that is allowed to move freely - unimpeded - around the world today… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
With the certitude of a true believer, Vellya Paapen had assured the twins that there was no such thing in the world… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to… — 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
