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I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.

~Philip Roth

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My traducers propound my alleged malefaction as though I have spewed venom on women for half a century. But only a madman would go to the trouble of writing 31 books in order to affirm his hatred.

~Philip Roth

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As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.

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Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.

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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.

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I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

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Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

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I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.

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Of course you bank on your experience, but as a sounding board. It isn't that you write down what happens to you every day. You wouldn't be a writer if you did that.

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It was my great problem to solve: how to write a book, you know. And after you write one, you have to write another to prove to yourself you can do it again.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 19th, 1933

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