Quotes by Arundhati Roy

Explore a curated collection of 19 quotes by Arundhati Roy. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. — Arundhati Roy
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I — Arundhati Roy
Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we — Arundhati Roy
Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us. — Arundhati Roy
Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown — Arundhati Roy
Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction d — Arundhati Roy
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is no — Arundhati Roy
In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking — Arundhati Roy
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing go — Arundhati Roy
There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. — Arundhati Roy
When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situati — Arundhati Roy
Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonabl — Arundhati Roy
Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the idea of dreaming of — Arundhati Roy
For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God — Arundhati Roy
I think one of the saddest things that's happening to literature is that it's getting over-simplified by this diet of si — Arundhati Roy
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of cover — Arundhati Roy
I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian v — Arundhati Roy
The Occupy movement found places where people who were feeling that anger could come and share it - and that is, as we a — Arundhati Roy
Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me. — Arundhati Roy