"A writer has to be driven crazy to……" — Philip Roth
"A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons."
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126 Quotes by Philip Roth
Philip Roth has 126 quotes on this site.
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Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
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The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
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Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
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I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look…
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I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your…
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if…
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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol,…
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A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
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More Crazy Quotes
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one of 4,361 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.
— Richard Armitage
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.
— Emilie Autumn
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I still get crazy once in a while, but just less crazy.
— Sebastian Bach
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded…
— Douglas Adams
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I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie…
— Christine Baranski
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I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever…
— Javier Bardem
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
— Edward Abbey
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
— Dave Barry
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I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!
— Lynda Barry
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
— Marion Barry
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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
— Drew Barrymore
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