“You Go With What’s Alive” – Advice from Philip Roth

A post on Literary Hub shares advice on writing culled from various interviews with Philip Roth, beloved writer of The Human Stain, American Pastoral, and The Plot Against America, among many others.

Among our favorites is this quote from a 1984 interview with the Paris Review:

“You go with what’s alive. Two thousand pages of narrative and six lines of dialogue may be just the ticket for one writer, and two thousand pages of dialogue and six lines of narrative the solution for another.”

Read the full post here

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