Arundhati Roy Quotes

The thing that always interests me from a storytelling point of view is how that moment of trauma, whatever the trauma is, even divorce, your dog dies, whatever it is, the consequence, in terms of people's emotional lives and the way it resonates behaviorally for a long time, is really the stuff that interests me.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

But times do change and move continually.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.

You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

We have passed a lot of water since then.

Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.

Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

The secret to all drama, film, TV, or books - the thing that people respond to most, and the thing I find myself as a viewer feeling most interested in, is the idea of change.

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

Nobody stays in the world that you've seen them in before.