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
depict observed reckless seemed talked trying
It seemed pretty reckless and vicious. I was just trying to depict the way it was, the way it sounded, what they talked about. This was just what I observed or imagined.
admission books books-and-reading
It's an admission of the books into perpetuity.
touch
I was back in touch with my place,
bull call market people reluctant
Some people have been reluctant to call this a bull market, because it's nothing like the 1990s. But it is a bull market -- it's just nothing like the 1990s.
book certain guide haul knew life literature rule satisfied taste three
The long haul kind of wearies me, the thought of doing a book for two or three or years; and you have to rule so much else out of your life. I always knew that literature satisfied a taste for considering life in a certain way, but that it wasn't a guide to living.
history nightmare trying
History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
everybody graduated life plain running stop
With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.
love-you telling-the-truth force
You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.
lessons worst teach
He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
thrill horror lost
The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.
reading noise fiction
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.
battle age massacres
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
reading two focus
To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.
writing sisterhood skulls
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.