"When you publish a book, it's the world's……" — Philip Roth

"When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it."

— Philip Roth

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126 Quotes by Philip Roth

Philip Roth has 126 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning.
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…
Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look…
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your…
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if…
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol,…
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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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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