Philip Roth
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
CountryUnited States of America
Philip Roth quotes about
epic pages way
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.
alive life-is periods
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
memories biographies bones
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.
life-is easy easy-life
How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.
memories past imagination
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
smart writing fiction
I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.
writing judging
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
greed volatility decline
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.
feelings phrases said
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.
writing alive pages
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
memories boys childhood
Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.
doctors
Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid
writing reality america
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
literature mess
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.