Philip Roth Quotes About Desire

• Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!

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  Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love!

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  Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

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  "'The Novelist's Obsession Is With Language': Philip Roth on Writing, the Future of Language and the Ghost Writer". Interview with Cynthia Haven, news.stanford.edu. February 03, 2014.

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