Philip Roth
Philip Roth
Philip Milton Roth is an American novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
CountryUnited States of America
inspiring children parent
The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.
imagination age novelists
We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.
literature mess
Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.
doctors
Doctor doctor, what do you say, lets put the id back in yid
memories boys childhood
Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.Of course no childhood is without its terrors, yet I wonder if I would have been a less frightened boy if Lindbergh hadn't been president or if I hadn't been the offspring of Jews.
memories biographies bones
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.
rooms pleasure persons
The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.
life-is easy easy-life
How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.
writing wrecks may
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
feelings phrases said
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.
writing alive pages
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
greed volatility decline
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
art humor moral
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
epic pages way
Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable. The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.