Philip Roth Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

  Philip Roth

  Reading, Fiction, Noise

  FaceBook post by Philip Roth from Jun 17, 2011

• You asked if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book — if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Reading, Mean

  Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

  Philip Roth

  Reading, Two, Focus

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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