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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I’m against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They’re ecologically unsustainable. And they’re hugely undemocratic. Arundhati Roy Read Quote
I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily. Arundhati Roy Read Quote
Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has. Arundhati Roy Read Quote
I am a Maoist sympathiser. I’m not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism. Arundhati Roy Read Quote
Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything. Arundhati Roy Read Quote
