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"To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of..." — Arundhati Roy

To me, there is nothing higher than fiction. Nothing. It is fundamentally who I am. I am a teller of stories. For me, that's the only way I can make sense of the world, with all the dance that it involves.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy Novelist • Indian
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