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Philip Roth
A Jewish man...
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they...
I cannot and...
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it...
I write 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...
It isn't that...
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence...
A kind of...
A kind of fever that flares up from time to time. . . . flared up again . . . to about 107 . . . Now there's just a...
Everybody else is...
Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of...
Obviously the facts...
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your...
Is an intelligent...
Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of...
Undermining experience, embellishing...
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of...
When you publish...
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
Source: New...