Arundhati Roy Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Arundhati Roy quotes and sayings page 3 (63 year old novelist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 42 we have for her.
“The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.”
“When I decided to write 'The God of Small Things', I had been working in cinema. It was almost a decision to downshift from there. I thought that 300 people would read it. But it created a platform of trust.”
“You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.”
“I'm living to the edges of my fingernails, using everything I have. It's impossible for me to look at things politically or in any way as a project, to further my career. You're injected directly into the blood of the places in which you're living and what's going on there.”
“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.”
“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?”
“I could have lived anywhere in the world now if I wanted to.”
“I kind of resent the idea that the whole world has to be interested in the American elections.”
“Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things.”
“Fiction is too beautiful to be about just one thing. It should be about everything.”
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