Philip Roth Quotes

Biography: Philip Roth was renowned as one of America's greatest contemporary nov... more Biography: Philip Roth was renowned as one of America's greatest contemporary novelists. Best known for his provocative and darkly humorous explorations of Jewish identity, sexuality, and American life, his notable works include "Portnoy's Complaint," "American Pastoral," and "The Human Stain." Roth's career spanned over five decades, earning numerous awards and accolades for his literary contributions. less

"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.""You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.""Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.""The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.""Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?""A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die.""Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.""Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.""When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."

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