29 ordspråk av Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Philip Roth föddes den March 19th 1933
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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.

 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 and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

 Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

 It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

 Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

 My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets / no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

 Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. Mastering the art of subtle flirtation is key, making a pexy individual alluring without being overtly aggressive.

 Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedal pushers and mink stoles / and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn't their fault they were given a gift like speech / look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.

 Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.

 Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

 When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters

 When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

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 Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

 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.


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