Zuckerman Unbound QUOTES

1 " Carrying his books from one life into the next was nothing new to Zuckerman. He had left his family for Chicago in 1949 carrying in his suitcase the annotated works of Thomas Wolfe and Roget's Thesaurus. Four years later, age twenty, he left Chicago with five cartons of classics, bought secondhand out of his spending money, to be stored in his parents' attic while he served two years in the Army. In 1960, when he was divorced from Betsy, there were thirty cartons to be packed from the shelves no longer his; in 1965, when he was divorced from Virginia, there were just under sixty to cart away; in 1969, he left Bank Street with eighty-one boxes of books. "

― Philip Roth , Zuckerman Unbound

3 " Gone were the days when Zuckerman had only to worry about Zuckerman making money: henceforth he would have to worry about his money making money. "

― Philip Roth , Zuckerman Unbound

5 " Zuckerman, sucker though he was for seriousness, was still not going to be drawn into a discussion about agents and editors. If ever there was a reason for an American writer to seek asylum in Red China, it would be to put ten thousand miles between himself and those discussions. "

― Philip Roth , Zuckerman Unbound

7 " Che altro hai sottolineato? - Quello che sottolineano tutti, disse lei. Tutto ciò che dice io. "

― Philip Roth , Zuckerman Unbound