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• ‟ I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.

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

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• ‟ At night, I read. I read for two hours. I just finished a marvelous book by Louise Erdrich, 'The Round House.' But mostly I read 20th-century history and biography. I lived then. I was either a child or at school or at work.

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• ‟ I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to come to him whole, you know, out of a personal experience. But the rest of us, I think, are not so lucky, and I had to work hard, yeah.

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• ‟ I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.

  - Philip Roth