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Philip Roth Quotes

At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.

Philip Roth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work History School Child Night Two

Everyone has an opinion of who you are and what your relationship is about, things that you've done or didn't do in your relationship - and it's just all crap, really. Things that are written about it are all crap.

Jessica Alba

Relationship Opinion You Done Things

It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina.

Mel Martinez

Government Help Price Short-Term

I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.

Jeff Kinney

Words Pictures Get Speeches Locked

The first Chipotle was intended to be my source of funding for a full-scale restaurant, a means to an end. But it turned out to be more successful than I ever imagined.

Steve Ells

End Restaurant More First Out Means

I think the plasticity of the novel is its greatest challenge. There are no rules; there is no necessary form. You can know what you want it to be, or do, and still not know how to write it. There are endless possibilities, infinite choices. What voice should it be in? What events to start with? What characters will be part of it?

Sue Miller

Challenge Start Choices Voice Think

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

Summer Sanders

Me Seem Just Inviting Pools Indoor

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

Tony Kushner

Great Me Evil Think Feeling Active

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

Rudolph A. Marcus

Problem Attention Student Class Some

I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.

Mary Gaitskill

Writing Think Late Difficult Started

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.

Drew Carey

Hate Job Support You Meet Group

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

Christopher Atkins

Change Want Much Lifestyles

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Clement Clarke Moore

Night House Christmas Through Mouse