by Jillian Butler, Ampersandology
In my experience, words of wisdom that filter down from famous writers tends to do one of two very specific things: either vibrate in the reader's mind with an uncanny connection, speaking to exactly that person and no one else. Or else these same words, landing in the wrong ear, can sound pompous, obscure and coined in the Ivory Tower. This tidbit from Philip Roth is in its own category: BALLIN' WITH NO END IN SIGHT.
-from The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. IV. Find it here.
In my experience, words of wisdom that filter down from famous writers tends to do one of two very specific things: either vibrate in the reader's mind with an uncanny connection, speaking to exactly that person and no one else. Or else these same words, landing in the wrong ear, can sound pompous, obscure and coined in the Ivory Tower. This tidbit from Philip Roth is in its own category: BALLIN' WITH NO END IN SIGHT.
INTERVIEWER
Do you have a Roth reader in mind when you write?
ROTH
No. I occasionally have an anti-Roth reader in mind. I think, How he is going to hate this! That can be all the encouragement I need.
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