14 Powerful Arundhati Roy Quotes to Inspire, Fuel, and Feed Your Writing
Pulled from the writer’s interview with The Paris Review
Arundhati Roy started in screenplays, but it’s for her novel, The God of Small Things, that Roy’s best known.
The book, which came out in 1997, netted Roy that year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Roy’s other awards and honors include the Norman Mailer Prize for Distinguished Writing, the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award, and the Sydney Peace Prize.
Roy’s career includes screenwriting, fiction, and nonfiction. In the latter, Roy’s earned a reputation for producing determined works on the climate and humanity’s misuse of our planet.
“I write about water because I’d be paid a great deal not to,” Roy once said.
The Summer 2021 issue of The Paris Review contains an interview Roy did with Hasan Altaf.
Below are 14 Arundhati Roy quotes from the interview that can help writers learn and grow.
Arundhati Roy on writing fiction
“A novelist can’t keep discrete worlds. Your business is to smash them together, against each other.”
“You need to have a circle of eyes, many pairs of eyes arranged all around your head and a…
