509 Quotes by Philip Roth

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

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

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.

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.

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

Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.

I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

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