Philip Roth Quotes about Lying

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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

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.

Philip Roth

Lying, Writing, Thinking

"The Ghost Writer". Book by Philip Roth, 1979.

It’s amazing what lies people can sustain behind the mask of their real faces.

Philip Roth

Real, Lying, People

Philip Roth (1985). “Reading myself and others”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

Philip Roth

Lying, Believe, People

FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Apr 19, 2012

The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight he has invented for his characters - in the juxtaposition of those characters and in the lifelike ramifications of the ensemble they make: their density, their substantiality, their lived existence actualized in all its nuanced particulars, is in fact his thought metabolized.

Philip Roth

Lying, Character, Novelists

"Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Philip Roth Quotes about Lying

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