Philip Roth : (2)

" A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons. " - 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