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I needed my life as a springb...

I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

The novelist's obsession, mom...

The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly ...

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

For me, the passing of time h...

For me, the passing of time has provided me with subjects I never had before. Subjects I can now look at from a historical perspective. Like the anti-communist era in America. I lived through that. I was a boy; I didn't find a way to write about it until many years later. The same with the Vietnam War.

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My goal would be to find a bi...

My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.

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Fear tends to manifest itself...

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

Making fake biography, false ...

Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

Writing, for me, was a feat o...

Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

Fluency can be a sign that no...

Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

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You write differently in each...

You write differently in each book. It may appear to be similar to readers, but you're a different writer in each book because you haven't approached that subject before. And every subject brings out a different prose strain in you. Fundamentally, yes, you're contained as one writer. But you have various voices. Like a good actor.

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I'm an Obama supporter. And i...

I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter, that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

I rarely, if ever, had anothe...

I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

I think I write and publish a...

I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.

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I'm not angry; I write about ...

I'm not angry; I write about angry characters. When I'm doing that, I'm happy. Just like when I'm writing about Mickey Sabbath being lustful, I'm not feeling lustful; I'm happy.

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I work all day, morning and a...

I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

I said the screen will kill t...

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

A writer has to be driven cra...

A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

To read a novel requires a ce...

To read a novel requires a certain amount of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel, really.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

Each book starts from ashes r...

Each book starts from ashes really. I don't feel that I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell or that story to tell, but I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

History... is a nightmare fro...

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Philip Roth 185 quotes

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