I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty. — 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
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
In India, we have a right wing that is so vicious and so openly wicked, which is the Baratiya Janata party (BJP),… — 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
Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and… — 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 Image
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 Image
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear. — 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. Non-fiction is… — 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 work, they… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Image
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really.... — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
