Quotes by Roth, Philip

Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlar >>

Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scal >>

Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed pl >>

Quotations about Autobiography

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of >>

Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensib >>

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake >>

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 dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.

Roth, Philip