Awards Quote 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…

— 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…

— Arundhati Roy

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

— Arundhati Roy

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Arundhati Roy

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

— 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.

— 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.

— 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…

— Arundhati Roy

Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really…

— Arundhati Roy