Book Quote by Ben Dolnick

Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him.

— Jacqueline Susann

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

— Nathan Englander

Philip Roth is a fabulous writer, but he pretty much stays within his own life. He's so good - I mean, practically anything I've…

— Tom Wolfe

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

— Chris Cleave

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in…

— Karan Mahajan

Having written for film and television, I had little interest in turning 'The Good Father' into a Hollywood thriller. I was writing a novel,…

— Noah Hawley

The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of…

— Sharon Olds

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

— Anatole Broyard

“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.”

— Geraldine Solon

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father.

— Pat Conroy

“There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson