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

~Arundhati Roy

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I could have lived anywhere in the world now if I wanted to.

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Topics: Anywhere Could Lived Now Wanted World

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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

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In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.

~Arundhati Roy

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As a writer, I have to go to a different place now. As a person... I want to step off whatever this stage is that I have been given. The argument has been made, the battle remains to be fought - and that requires a different set of skills.

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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.

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There are people who have comfortable relationships with power and people with natural antagonism to power. I think it's easy to guess where I am in that.

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I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's only something that I felt compelled to do, and it began to evolve.

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I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, all these experiences, they sat in me, and they got broken down into my body, and I sweated it out. It's not because I want to talk about 'issues.' For me, a novel is a way of seeing the world.

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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

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Novelist

Born: November 24th, 1961

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