Quote by: Philip Roth

Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and you’re-going-to-be-late, keepers of the diary of her duties and routines, memories, rather, of when they found one another afresh, beyond the tensions between parental mastery and inept childish uncertainty, of those moments of respite in a family’s life when they could reach one another in calm


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Author Bio


  • NamePhilip Roth
  • DescriptionAmerican novelist
  • AliasesPhilip Milton Roth
  • BornMarch 19, 1933
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; National Medal Of Arts; National Humanities Medal; Franz Kafka Prize; National Book Award; Pulitzer Prize For Fiction; Prince Of Asturia Literary Prize