I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and

Image, I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and

I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.

—Philip Roth

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