Dance Quote by Arundhati Roy

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

— Dale Peck

If some people read my fiction and see it as fundamentally about philosophical ideas, what it probably means is that these are pieces where…

— David Foster Wallace

I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise.

— Arundhati Roy

There can be nothing more humiliating for a writer of fiction to have to do than restate a case that has already been made.

— Arundhati Roy

“Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown sky, Fuck You.”

— 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

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When dancing with a pit bull, it's always best to let him lead.”

— Michael Barnett

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

— Maria Montessori

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could…

— Mark Twain