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“And do you fully understand what a story like this story, when it’s published, will mean to people who don’t know us?” (The Ghost Writer Quotes)
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“Because you happen to be a writer doesn’t mean you have to deny yourself the ordinary human pleasure of being praised and applauded.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“Everything undeniably true struck me as transparently false as soon as I wrote it down, and the greater the effort to be sincere, the worse it went.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“Great artists, as history reveals, have been harshly persecuted time and again by the frightened and ill-educated,”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“I don’t know anybody. I turn sentences around, and that’s it.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“I know the kind of man I am and the kind of writer. I have my own kind of bravery, and please, let’s leave it at that.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“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.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“I’ll be curious to see how we all come out someday. It could be an interesting story. You’re not so nice and polite in your fiction,” he said. “You’re a different person.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“In the gleaming briefcase I carried ten typewritten pages I had written for International Relations the year before on the Balfour Declaration.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“No one with seven books in New York City settles for one piece of ass. That’s what you get for a couplet.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“The joy of awakening each morning knowing there were all those empty hours ahead to be filled only with work.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“The life he described sounded like paradise to me; that he could think to do nothing better with his time than turn sentences around seemed to me a blessing bestowed not only upon him but upon world literature.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“The pride inspired in my parents by the establishment in 1948 of a homeland in Palestine that would gather in the unmurdered remnant of European Jewry was, in fact, not so unlike what welled up in me when I first came upon Lonoff’s thwarted, secretive, imprisoned souls, and realized that out of everything humbling from which my own striving, troubled father had labored to elevate us all, a literature of such dour wit and poignancy could be shamelessly conceived.”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
“There is his religion of art, my young successor: rejecting life! Not living is what he makes his beautiful fiction out of! And you will now be the person he is not living with!”
Philip Roth
The Ghost Writer
