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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
- Philip Roth
#Apple
#Army
#Glass
#Home
#Temple
Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.
- Philip Roth
#Baseball
#Daily
#Frustration
#Just
#Time
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.
- Philip Roth
#Experience
#Imagination
#Memories
#Past
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
- Philip Roth
#Alive
#Die
#Man
#Parents
#Will
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.
- Philip Roth
#Actor
#Book
#Every
#Good Actor
#Good
The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.
- Philip Roth
#Language
#Moment
#Next
#Obsession
#Right
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.
- Philip Roth
#Autobiography
#Decide
#Fiction
#Smart
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
- Philip Roth
#Authority
#Beauty
#Belief
#Literature
#Moral
#Power
I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did, and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
- Philip Roth
#Desire
#I Am
#Late
#Life
#Way
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
- Philip Roth
#Human
#Intelligent
#Misunderstanding
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
#Concentration
#Devotion
#Focus
#Two
All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.
- Philip Roth
#Astonishing
#Even
#Know
#Knowing
#More
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
- Philip Roth
#Hell Is
#Hell
#Paved
#Road
Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.
- Philip Roth
#Closest
#Deadly
#Friends
#Seriousness
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
- Philip Roth
#Always
#Fond
#Subordination
#Unless
#War
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
- Philip Roth
#Alive
#Just
#Life
#Short
#Time
People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.
- Philip Roth
#Anger
#Fun
#Lot
#People
#Unjust
Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.
- Philip Roth
#Age
#Battle
#Massacre
#Old Age
#Old
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