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Philip Roth

Philip Roth

American Novelist

Born: Mar 19, 1933

Died: May 22, 2018

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Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend. Philip Roth

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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

My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends. Philip Roth

Life Me Hate Writing My Life Big Would Would-Be Find Finish Occupy Subject Goal End Die Just Ends Want Them Agony Keep Now Fat Starting

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