Not again

Thousands of people turned out in London at the weekend to protest against an attack on Iraq. Here, the distinguished writer Arundhati Roy argues that it is the demands of global capitalism that are driving us to war

Monday September 30, 2002

Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonise us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
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