--- title: "22 Want Quotes By Arundhati Roy" description: "22 Want quotes by Arundhati Roy. Plus more from Arundhati Roy and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/898/arundhati-roy-346_darkness_i-don-t-want-to-be-a-victim-i-don-t-want_1894929.png" --- > [I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-don-t-want-to-be-a-victim-i-don-t-want-to-disappear-into-the/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/898/arundhati-roy-346_darkness_i-don-t-want-to-be-a-victim-i-don-t-want_1894929.png) > [If you want to control somebody, support them. Or marry them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/if-you-want-to-control-somebody-support-them-or-marry-them/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbc/arundhati-roy-346_ifs_if-you-want-to-control-somebody-support_2943445.png) > [I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-am-very-conscious-that-from-the-time-of-the-god-of-small-things-was/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d3/arundhati-roy-346_conscious_i-am-very-conscious-that-from-the-time-o_760619.png) > [I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-am-completely-a-loner-in-my-head-i-want-to-feel-i-can-be-anywhere/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f8/arundhati-roy-346_feels_i-am-completely-a-loner-in-my-head-i-wan_746469.png) > [Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/stable-markets-unstable-world-efficiency-everybody-hears-about-it-it/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b7/arundhati-roy-346_corruption_stable-markets-unstable-world-efficiency_2306130.png) > [I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-don-t-want-to-play-these-games-of-statistics-any-more-i-have-done/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ed/arundhati-roy-346_activists_i-don-t-want-to-play-these-games-of-stat_454286.png) > [As a writer, I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/as-a-writer-i-have-to-go-to-a-different-place-now-as-a-person-i-want/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0e/arundhati-roy-346_argument_as-a-writer-i-have-to-go-to-a-different_2546311.jpg) > [Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/ammu-loved-her-children-of-course-but-their-wide-eyed-vulnerability/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/079/arundhati-roy-346_children_ammu-loved-her-children-of-course-but-th_83137.png) > [As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/as-a-woman-who-grew-up-in-a-village-in-india-i-ve-spent-my-whole-life/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac0/arundhati-roy-346_fighting_as-a-woman-who-grew-up-in-a-village-in-i_2637305.png) > [In India the new government - the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a 'Hindu Nation' -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/in-india-the-new-government-the-members-of-the-radical-hindu-right/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/025/arundhati-roy-346_bigots_in-india-the-new-government-the-members_2716928.png) > [With one hand, you're selling the country out to Western multinationals. And with the other, you want to defend your borders with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/with-one-hand-you-re-selling-the-country-out-to-western/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5f/arundhati-roy-346_bombs_with-one-hand-you-re-selling-the-country_2234295.png) > [I don't have the Big Idea. I don't have the arrogance to even want to have the Big Idea. But I believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-don-t-have-the-big-idea-i-don-t-have-the-arrogance-to-even-want-to/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a99/arundhati-roy-346_arrogance_i-don-t-have-the-big-idea-i-don-t-have-t_3156997.png) > [It's very easy for me to begin to believe the publicity about myself, whether for or against. It can give you an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/it-s-very-easy-for-me-to-begin-to-believe-the-publicity-about-myself/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/arundhati-roy-346_absurd_it-s-very-easy-for-me-to-begin-to-believ_1533235.png) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/people-say-to-me-oh-it-s-so-wonderful-that-you-re-writing-about-real/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d42/arundhati-roy-346_confused_people-say-to-me-oh-it-s-so-wonderful-th_1595240.jpg) > [I can't be a part of the large convoy because it's not a choice that you can make. The fact that I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-can-t-be-a-part-of-the-large-convoy-because-it-s-not-a-choice-that/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53c/arundhati-roy-346_choices_i-can-t-be-a-part-of-the-large-convoy-be_3153138.png) > [So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/so-far-as-we-are-concerned-there-is-not-one-word-in-the-statements/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/696/arundhati-roy-346_behalf_so-far-as-we-are-concerned-there-is-not_1773857.jpg) > [Because of who I am and what place I have now in India, I'm petitioned all the time to get involved. It's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/because-of-who-i-am-and-what-place-i-have-now-in-india-i-m-petitioned/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a5/arundhati-roy-346_bones_because-of-who-i-am-and-what-place-i-hav_1783340.png) > [Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/iraq-was-only-the-latest-in-a-succession-of-countries-earlier-there/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0e/arundhati-roy-346_bottles_iraq-was-only-the-latest-in-a-succession_1967333.png) > [Because of the caste system, because of the fact that there is no social link between those who make the decisions and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/because-of-the-caste-system-because-of-the-fact-that-there-is-no/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66b/arundhati-roy-346_assuming_because-of-the-caste-system-because-of-t_587416.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-m-not-ambitious-i-don-t-want-to-get-anywhere-i-don-t-want-anything/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/359/arundhati-roy-346_ambitious_i-m-not-ambitious-i-don-t-want-to-get-an_506534.jpg) > [The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-secret-of-the-great-stories-is-that-they-have-no-secrets-the-2/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/373/arundhati-roy-346_dies_the-secret-of-the-great-stories-is-that_2915422.png) > [The IMF and the World Bank, the most opaque and secretive entities, put millions into NGOs who fight against "corruption" and for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-imf-and-the-world-bank-the-most-opaque-and-secretive-entities-put/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe8/arundhati-roy-346_corruption_the-imf-and-the-world-bank-the-most-opaq_684737.png) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Arundhati Roy > [...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/as-the-disparity-between-the-rich-and-the-poor-grows-the-fight-to/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/in-2001-we-were-told-that-the-war-in-afghanistan-was-a-feminist/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/poverty-is-a-crime-and-the-poor-are-terrorists/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/flat-muscled-and-honey-coloured-sea-secrets-in-his-eyes-a-silver/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/fiction-and-non-fiction-are-only-different-techniques-of-story/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/ngos-have-a-complicated-space-in-neoliberal-politics-they-are/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-ve-never-been-that-person-who-thought-that-because-i-ve-written-one/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/it-is-such-a-supreme-folly-to-believe-that-nuclear-weapons-are-deadly/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/i-think-one-of-the-saddest-things-that-s-happening-to-literature-is/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-only-dream-worth-having-i-told-her-is-to-dream-that-you-will-live/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/but-what-was-there-to-say-only-that-there-were-tears-only-that/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/truly-there-s-no-alternative-to-stupidity-cretinism-is-the-mother-of/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/the-secret-of-the-great-stories-is-that-they-have-no-secrets-the/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [“stilts, the ground floors given over to parking. It’s a good idea in this car-maddened city,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/stilts-the-ground-floors-given-over-to-parking-it-s-a-good-idea-in/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arundhati-roy/perhaps-it-s-true-that-things-can-change-in-a-day-that-a-few-dozen/) [Arundhati Roy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arundhati-roy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/arundhati-roy/#itemlist", "name": "22 Want Quotes By Arundhati Roy", "numberOfItems": 22, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I don't want to be a victim. 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