509 Quotes by Philip Roth

إنه جريء.لكن هل هذا يكفي؟هذا فقط جزء من المعادلة.ينبغي أن يكون للجرأة هدف،وإلا ستكون رخيصة وسطحية ومبتذلة.

Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness are my closest friends.

People are unjust to anger - it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

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.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

Each book starts from ashes.

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.