I work just as much as I always worked. And I can't explain the fact that there have been a series of books coming rather regularly out of me. I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.
Philip RothEveryone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.
Philip RothFor a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can't beat the nasty side of existence.
Philip RothI donโt ask writers about their work habits. I really donโt care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, theyโre actually trying to find out, "Is he as crazy as I am?" I donโt need that question answered.
Philip Roth--nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others
Philip Roth