602 Quotes by Arundhati Roy

I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience?

I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.

Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

I am very conscious that, from the time of 'The God of Small Things' was published 10 years ago, we are in a different world... which needs to be written about differently, and I really very much want to do that.

Every people, every society, needs a culture of resistance, a culture of being difficult and disobedient, that is the only way they will ever be able to stand up to the inevitable abuse of power by whoever runs the state apparatus, the capitalists, the communists, the socialists, the Gandhians, whoever.

The UID is a corporate scam which funnels billions of dollars into the IT sector