Quotes by Roth, Philip

I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography >>

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it. >>

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in >>

Quotations about Autobiography

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for th >>

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

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who hav >>

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

Roth, Philip