Quotes From "The Ghost Writer" By Philip Roth

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

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

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees Philip Roth

It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings. Philip Roth