Henry Roth Quotes & Sayings

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

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