Philip Roth: Writing Award-Winning Books for Almost 50 Years

They explore how individuals face the tensions of family, politics, sex and race.

It's a job. It definitely has not become easier nor has it become harder. It's work, it's hard work. And I do it regularly, every day, usually six days, sometimes seven.

I work long days, I work eight, nine, ten hours. And it's just as taxing as it always was, just as frustrating, just at difficult as it always was.

And at a certain stage in the writing of the book it ceases to be taxing and difficult and you get into a rhythm, and you get it. And then, there is no pleasure like it. Then it's bliss.