Arundhati Roy Quotes

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

Arundhati Roy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: indian
  • Birth: November 24, 1961

Topics

TimeI AmFeelPoliticalWorthMade

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

TodayTomorrowLoseYesterdayComing

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people.

Melanie Lynskey

PeopleCrazyThinkCrazy PeopleLot

Since I was there in the very beginning, I know the history of the characters. So, I make comments about the tone and sometimes remind the writers that we've done that before.

Matt Groening

HistoryBeginningKnowSometimes

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.

Tom Stoppard

ChildrenRespectWordsWorldThink

I wanted to write a show about an estate that wasn't sad or morbid, like a lot of shows portray working class life to be.

Michaela Coel

My first show was at my friend Corey Petrick's basement in Bucks County, PA.

Joshua Ostrander

FriendFirstShowMy FriendBasement

When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last major action of World War II - was rarely mentioned in high school textbooks. This is despite the fact that, before its torpedoing, the ship had delivered components of the atomic bomb Little Boy to Tinian Island.

Doug Stanton

SchoolWarWritingWorldBookStory

I wasn't thrilled about 'The Sound Of Music' - not the movie itself but my role in it. Captain Von Trapp was a bore, and they tried to help by giving it a bit more cynicism, but it wasn't my favourite role. I enjoyed the music, and I loved Julie Andrews.

Christopher Plummer

MusicLovedGivingHelpCaptain

I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started.

Cory Michael Smith

PlanningDoingStartedMusicalsHow

I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.

Clark Gregg

TimeFlyingThoughtMoreWriteSeem

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

Chuck Palahniuk

GoodHeartMomentStoryLaughYou

It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.

Ali Smith

GreatTimeArtLightDarkCraft

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Arundhati Roy