Philip Roth Quotes

I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.

Philip Roth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 19, 1933 - May 22, 2018

Topics

LifeWaterFeetMy LifeDownI Can

Home is where your family is. Wherever you are, it's about the people you're surrounded by, not necessarily where you lay your head.

Jenji Kohan

FamilyHomePeopleYouHeadWhere

My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.

John Krasinski

WaterFootballFunFriendsDoing

Music is my life.

Robert Iler

LifeMusicMy LifeMusic Is My Life

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Michael Franti

ChangeFearAngryWorldThinkWant

Most people don't know that dancing auditions, you learn the steps right now.

Rita Moreno

PeopleLearnYouKnowNowRight

My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame dress. My hair was all curled, and it was the first time I wore a garter belt. I felt so out of place!

Martina Navratilova

MotherTimeDanceDressMemoryHair

People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!

Luis von Ahn

GoodTogetherPeopleComputersYou

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

Loudon Wainwright III

YouDoneListenNeverAnythingMake

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.

Jay Baruchel

JobMeCanadaUpSomewhereWould

Photography belongs to a fraternity of its own. I was young and enthusiastic and wanted to take good pictures to show the other photographers. That, and the professional pride of convincing an editor that I was the man to go somewhere, were the most important things to me.

Don McCullin

GoodManMePridePhotographyYoung

Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.

Diana Gabaldon

DriveDownHardBubblesUpAnything

I think the greatest rogues are they who talk most of their honesty.

Anthony Trollope

HonestyThinkTalkGreatestMost

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