Quotes from Writing About Jews — Philip Roth
1933–2018 United States
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Literary works do not take as their subjects characters and events which have impressed a writer primarily by the frequency of their appearance.
Writing About Jews (1963)
The concerns of fiction, let it be said, are not those of a statistician — or of a public-relations firm. The novelist asks himself, "What do people think?"; the PR man asks, "What will people think?"
Writing About Jews (1963)
All the tolerance of persecution that has seeped into the Jewish character — the adaptability, the patience, the resignation, the silence, the self-denial — must be squeezed out, until the only response there is to any restriction of liberties is "No, I refuse."
Writing About Jews (1963)