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NOVELISTS > novelist, short-story writer > Philip Roth
I cannot and...
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I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
Source: Phillip, in Deception (1990, p. 190 of Jonathan Cape ed.), to his wife.
-- Philip Roth, (Mar 19 1933-2018), US novelist, short-story writer; His works include an acute ear for dialogue, Jewish middle-class life, and painful entanglements, e.g., Goodbye Columbus, and Portnoy's Complaint.