"I was a biography in constant motion, memory……" — Philip Roth
"I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones."
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126 Quotes by Philip Roth
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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 Biographies Quotes
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers…
— David Bowie
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses,…
— A. S. Byatt
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it…
— Jane Campion
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
— Deepak Chopra
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most…
— Mark Twain
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I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better…
— Charles Babbage
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