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"I don't know any writer for whom it comes easily. Maybe John Updike - a story would just seem to com..." — Philip Roth

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.
Philip Roth
Philip Roth Novelist • American
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