Philip Roth · EUA · @fsgbooks
Gostei muito! Li com facilidade e gostei tanto das reflexões sobre o ato da escrita quanto pela relação de um aprendiz tutor. Li o Middle Years do Henry James em paralelo. Fiquei curioso com relação ao título e achei possível interpretação de que várias personagens podem ser o Ghost Writer.
“I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again”
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I turn sentences around. That’s my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around againposição 165
There is no life without patienceposição 259
He did not do justice to a writer unless he read him on consecutive days and for no less than three hours at a sittingposição 718
My children are finished with college. My house is paid for. I have Blue Cross and major medical protection. I have ’56 Ford. Yesterday I got a check for forty-five dollars in royalties from Brazil - money out of the blue. Throw it, I told myself, and have a fresh shave with a new bladeposição 1726