I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty years ago, and the only way to assert one's existence is by climbing over the body… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place.… — Marco Roth Copy Share
I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind… — Marco Roth Copy Share
“When he picked out the [gravesite] plot, my father had joked that he was moving, at last, to the suburbs.” — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
The contemporary memoir is playing an important role in at least just bringing certain relationships out into the open in American society, and also… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
I really wanted to get out of that cycle in our family where somebody's taking revenge on somebody for some slight that happened thirty… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for the openness to form, and literary form because it forces you to actually think about the other… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
My story follows a very classic tragic paradigm in which you learn things too late for them to be of any use, and by… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
Thomas Mann used to write education novels and now you can write an education memoir, and there are all these memoirs coming out now… — Marco Roth Copy Share Image
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