Minds Quote by Arundhati Roy Download Open image “Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.” — Arundhati Roy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Minds Nation Pity Psychology Silence Speaking Writers Writing
Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I certainly think it's very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
I certainly think its very important that writers as citizens - not necessarily as writers, but just as ordinary citizens - should talk about… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The thing I hate about writers is they want to state their case and they use false information. — Jim Boeheim Copy Share Image
You hear all this whining going on, 'Where are our great writers?' The thing I might feel doleful about is: 'Where are the readers?' — Gore Vidal 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 corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can you really bomb feminism into a country? And now, after 25 years of brutal war - 10 years against the Soviet occupation, 15 years of US occupation - the Taliban is riding back to Kabul and… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
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 was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share
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
What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
“You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact. — Maximillian Degenerez Copy Share Image
It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of… — Breyten Breytenbach Copy Share Image
In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. — U Thant Copy Share Image
Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Your names and your photos give you a unique identity. Make and maintain a good name in the hearts of people. Paint good photos… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds. — Ryan Lochte Copy Share Image
