There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. — 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… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and… — 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
“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 never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be… — 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
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… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The… — 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
“NOTHING I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“N O T H I N G I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing… — 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
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I love the unanswered question, the unresolved story, the unclimbed mountain, the tender shard of an incomplete dream. Most of the time.… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about.… — 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
