“What if he's right? We've seen great countries fall into ruin virtually overnight. What if we're next in line? That thought fills… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Something about Tilo’s new home reminded Musa of the story of Mumtaz Afzal Malik, the young taxi driver whom Amrik Singh had… — 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 don’t know where to stop, or how to go on. I stop when I shouldn’t. I go on when I should… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I do believe that fundamental to any real hope is that we do need to reconstitute what has been generally handed out… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“The time has come, the Walrus said. Perhaps things will become worse and then better. Perhaps there's a small god up in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“There seems to be no hope. But pretending to be hopeful is the only grace we have . . .” — 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
