“My idea of Hell is to be stuck in a library where all the books were authored by Marcel Proust.” — Marc Rainer Copy Share Image
“De liefde? Die bedrijf ik vaak maar ik spreek er nooit over. (Mme de Villeparisis in 'De kant van Guermantes'.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“You're our Marcel Proust, Mr. Zuckerman." Zuckerman laughed. It wasn't exactly how he saw it.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“I know the secrets; I dig Joyce and Proust above Melville and Celine.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“She couldn't demand that Mrs. Proust get off the bed; it wasn't her bed. It wasn't her castle. She smiled. In fact… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust’s jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“Monsieur de Norpois is made to be ashamed of the fact that he expressed a different opinion. Proust did not consider that… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Donald Westlake's Parker novels are among the small number of books I read over and over. Forget all that crap you've been… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“Only a determined and resourceful scholar could establish manuscript precedence - but in the race to masturbate on a printed page Proust… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I believe in the theory that you should invert the genders in Proust - to me, it makes more sense like that,… — Manny Rayner Copy Share Image
The marvellous thing about Proust - although it must have been a nightmare living in his head - is he forgot nothing.… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“So the days pass and I ask myself sometimes whether one is not hypnotised, as a child by a silver globe, by… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“The variations of the Duchess's judgment spared no one, except her husband. He alone had never been in love with her, in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“Yet the Narrator’s quest is not only for his own identity and vocation. He seeks an understanding of art, sexuality and worldly… — Adam A. Watt Copy Share Image
“This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result was so cruel that one day, noticing a swelling over his… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“-NONREADING- Bookstores don't provide a remote control for Proust, you can't switch to a soccer match, or a quiz show, win a… — Wisława Szymborska Here Copy Share Image
“Within five minutes of leaving the reunion, I'd undone the double wrapping and eaten all six rugelach, each a snail of sugar-dusted… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Many contemporaries of Proust’s insisted that he wrote the way he spoke, although when Du côté de chez Swann appeared in print,… — Christopher Prendergast Copy Share Image
“In my twenties if even a tenth reading of Mallarmé failed to yield up its treasures, the fault was mine, not his.… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be happy to read them.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“And yet, she suddenly wondered, should you actually lie about how much Proust you've read?” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
