All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story! — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Nabokov said about adultery in his lecture on Madame Bovary? He said it was 'a most conventional way… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
She (Madame Bovary) had that indefinable beauty that comes from happiness, enthusiasm, success - a beauty that is nothing more or less… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary,… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was:… — Joseph McCarthy Copy Share Image
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary,… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It's unthinkable to me that someone might not have read 'Madame Bovary.' He writes with… — Brigitte Macron Copy Share Image
Doesn't it seem to you," asked Madame Bovary, "that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
“Dostoevsky was writing about losers. The main character of The Iliad, Hector, is a loser. It’s very boring to talk about winners.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Madame Bovary, c'est moi. Emma Bovary. She was the first. The first to thrash around in the space between a packaged wonder… — Antonia Quirke Copy Share Image
“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
“Mary McCarthy, though, had it wrong when she wrote that “Madame Bovary is Don Quixote in skirts.” Emma’s suffering is Platonic: she… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Lots of talk lately about the GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL that seems to be exclusively masculine. And how many of the characters in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“In this sense, we can render the false meaning of catharsis which occurs in pornography with a different meaning than the catharsis… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“Dad once noted (somewhat morbidly, I thought at the time) that American institutions would be infinitely more successful in facilitating the pursuit… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“In reading, one should notice and fondle details. There is nothing wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“That summer was a long hot one, unusual for Ireland. As the days grew hotter the summer seemed endless. Gertrude was suspended… — Anne McCabe Copy Share Image
“You should wait, William," Miss Frost said. "The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed,… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The hormones also made me more emotional. I found myself snapping at Chad and Jeff for blasting The Rock and Stone Cold… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
“Not to me," I said. Kafka wrote his first story in one night. Stendhal wrote The Charterhouse of Parma in forty-nine days.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Proust, who did not greatly admire Flaubert, except perhaps in his narrow sense as a stylist - or perhaps only did not… — Enid Starkie Copy Share Image
“Above all, readers want useful information, whether from a road sign or an investment guide. This motive is not completely absent even… — Alice W. Flaherty Copy Share Image
“The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“I must confess that in all the times I read Madame Bovary, I never noticed the heroine's rainbow eyes. Should I have?… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
