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For me, the passing of time has provided me with subjects I never had before. Subjects I can now look at from a historical perspective. Like the anti-communist era in America. I lived through that. I was a boy; I didn't find a way to write about it until many years later. The same with the Vietnam War.

~Philip Roth

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I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.

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My goal would be to find a big, fat subject that would occupy me to the end of my life, and when I finish it, I'll die. What's agony is starting; I hate starting them. I just want to keep writing now and end when it ends.

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I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter, that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.

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I do the same kind of rewriting that I do in the shorts that I do in long books - and that is a lot. The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

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I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 19th, 1933

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