“I left the front stoop on Leslie Street, ate of the fruit of the tree of fiction, and nothing, neither reality nor myself, has been the same since.”
Philip Roth
Operation Shylock: A Confession
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“I don't think there is any point in continuing writing. Since I have neither killed nor been killed, there's nothing further to explain. (Box Man, p. 38)”
Kobo Abe
“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.”
Christina Georgina Rossetti
“I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.”
Witold Gombrowicz
“At the last minute, I couldn't wear the Hitler mustache because Tiger Stripe ate it; and then I didn't want to take my kitty and risk his coughing up some big Nazi hairball on someone's front stoop.”
Chuck Palahniuk
Damned
“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
Tom Clancy