Editing Arundhati Roy (section)

==Influences==
Roy cites [[William Shakespeare]], [[Rudyard Kipling]], [[James Baldwin]], [[Toni Morrison]], [[Maya Angelou]], [[John Berger]], [[James Joyce]], [[Vladimir Nabokov]], and [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]] as influences and has said, "I’m grateful for the lessons one learns from great writers, but also from imperialists, sexists, friends, lovers, oppressors, revolutionaries—everybody. Everybody has something to teach a writer".<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Altaf |first=Hasan |date=June 2021 |title=Arundhati Roy, The Art of Fiction No. 249 |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7814/the-art-of-fiction-no-249-arundhati-roy |magazine=[[The Paris Review]] |access-date=May 6, 2025 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="the week">{{cite magazine |last=Mukerji |first=Debashish |date=October 26, 1997 |title=Our life earlier was much saner |url=https://www.theweek.in/webworld/features/society/interview-with-pia-krishen-roys-stepdaughter.html |magazine=[[The Week (Indian magazine)|The Week]] |access-date=May 6, 2025}}</ref>