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Philip Roth Quotes
Philip Roth
American
Novelist
Born:
Mar 19
,
1933
Died:
May 22
,
2018
Book
Life
Me
Work
Writing
You
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Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.
Philip Roth
Game
Pretend
Novelist
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
You
Focus
Reading
More
Weeks
Concentration
Devotion
Read
Than
Really
Certain
Requires
Novel
Amount
Two
Two Weeks
I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.
Philip Roth
Work
Book
Writing
Publish
Living
Think
Say
Tell
Bear
Write
Writing Process
Feel
Know
Because
Occupied
Without
Often
Being
Want
Process
Story
While
I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.
Philip Roth
History
Reading
Other
Once
Read
Did
Same
Stopped
Fiction
Interest
Things
Biography
I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
Philip Roth
Book
Writing
Mind
Starts
Rarely
Previous
Had
Another
While
Ashes
Really
Each
Ever
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