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Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

- Philip Roth
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

I don't ask writers about their work habits. I really don't care.

As I see it, my focus has never been on masculine power rampant and triumphant but rather on the antithesis: masculine power impaired.

Membaca novel membutuhkan konsentrasi, fokus, pengabdian tertentu pada membaca.

Making fake biography, false history, concocting a half-imaginary existence out of the actual drama of my life is my life.

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

You write differently in each book. It may appear to be similar to readers, but you're a different writer in each book because you haven't approached that subject before. And every subject brings out a different prose strain in you. Fundamentally, yes, you're contained as one writer. But you have various voices. Like a good actor.

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Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.