Henry Roth quotes

Henry Roth quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.”
-- Henry Roth

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“Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.”
-- Henry Roth

Source : 1987 'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.

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