“Was it possible to live outside language? Naturally this question did not address itself to her in words, or as a single… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“the end of the day we’re all animals. We need to be shown our pee ell a see ee. A little clarity… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Our tragedy today is not just that millions of people who called themselves communist or socialist were physically liquidated in Vietnam, Indonesia,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities? —PABLO NERUDA” — 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
“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I'm trained as an architect; writing is like architecture. In buildings, there are design motifs that occur again and again, that repeat… — 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
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