Arundhati Roy Quotes

My songs are a direct route into my brain and my heart.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.

People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I'm desperately trying to do is to get students to talk to themselves as though they are indeed themselves, and not someone else.

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

Maintaining a sense of your personality grounds you in your space. I try and just make what I wear a reflection of how I feel at that moment, at that particular place in time.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

People should listen to my music if they just want to know me better.

All my collections are based on something I like or something I'm dealing with. They are always deeply personal.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.