America Quote by Philip Roth

I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!

— Jennifer Egan

I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of…

— Jennifer Egan

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

— Frank Zappa

It is difficult not to write satire.

— Juvenal

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

— Jude Morgan

Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a…

— Hedda Hopper

In a satire, you need foolishness.

— Shoojit Sircar

I don't know that you can do it as a satire. I mean, the business is crazy enough as it is. It's like doing…

— Barry Levinson

In a democracy in the 20th and 21st century, if you can't base your fiction upon ordinary people and the issues that engage them,…

— John Updike

When you start writing fiction, you have to learn to invent, and it's very hard at the beginning to stop relying on facts and…

— Fiona Barton

Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it…

— George Michael

Good fiction creates its own reality.

— Nora Roberts