Quote by: Philip Roth

I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back in and write another sentence. Then I have tea and turn the new sentence around. Then I read the two sentences over and turn them both around. Then I lie down on my sofa and think. Then I get up and throw them out and start from the beginning. And if I knock off from this routine for as long as a day, I’m frantic with boredom and a sense of waste.


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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