Quote

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

Philip Roth

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Philip Roth
Age: 85 †
Born: 1933
Born: March 18
Died: 2018
Died: May 22
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Newark
New Jersey
Philip Milton Roth
Means
Hard
Mean
Years
Time
Supporter
Bush
Obama

More quotes by Philip Roth

Image
When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'
Philip Roth
Image
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy.
Philip Roth
Image
The best readers come to fiction to be free of ... all that isn't fiction.
Philip Roth
Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
Philip Roth
Image
As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.
Philip Roth
Image
He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.
Philip Roth
Image
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip Roth
Image
'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.
Philip Roth
Image
Let's hope the first comes first.
Philip Roth
Image
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.
Philip Roth
Image
It's amazing how much punishment we can take.
Philip Roth
Image
It's the little questions from women about tappets that finally push men over the edge.
Philip Roth
Image
You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.
Philip Roth
Image
And as he spoke, I was thinking, 'the kind of stories that people turn life into, the kind of lives people turn stories into.
Philip Roth
Image
The question to ask about the writer isn't 'Why does he behave so badly?' but 'What does he gain by wearing this mask?
Philip Roth
Image
Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.
Philip Roth
Image
One either imposes one's ideas or one is imposed on.
Philip Roth
Image
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
Philip Roth
Image
I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.
Philip Roth
Image
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.
Philip Roth