Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Roth

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Henry Roth.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Henry Roth

Henry Roth was an American novelist and short story writer who found success later in life after his 1934 novel Call It Sleep was reissued in paperback in 1964.

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