Tag: Arundhati Roy
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All my books are accidental books – they come from reacting to things and thinking about things and engaging in a real way. They are not about, ‘Oh, did it get a good review in the Guardian?’ I don’t care.
Arundhati Roy
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Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.
Arundhati Roy
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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.
Arundhati Roy
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To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it’s not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they live. But it used to be our job.
Arundhati Roy
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The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it – and that is, as we all know, extremely important in any political movement. The Occupy sites became a way you could gauge the levels of anger and discontent.
Arundhati Roy
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Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or Pakistan are longing to be kicked around all over again?
Arundhati Roy
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For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read ‘The God of Small Things’ would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.
Arundhati Roy
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I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.
Arundhati Roy
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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
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You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
Arundhati Roy