Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
There was a moment when designers draped in ermine would be reading Proust, or pretending to. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
“Wall of lies?’ Proust muttered. ‘Is that the one that borders the orchard of obsession that contains the tree of lunacy?” — Sophie Hannah 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
“Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be happy to read them.” — Saul Bellow 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
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
“Nothing I had drunk had ever tasted like that before: rich and warm and perfectly happy in my mouth. I remembered that… — Neil Gaiman 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
In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
“The only way to defend language is to attack it…' - Proust. Every good writer in history had, in order to ensure… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Anzi, da un punto di vista puramente realistico, i paesi che noi desideriamo tengono in ogni istante assai più posto nella nostra… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting. — Jean Cocteau 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
Proust, my big inspiration for 'Goon Squad,' uses music a lot in his novel, both in terms of plot and structure. I… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon… — Judith Thurman Copy Share Image
“So even that marvelous, long remembrances of life all the time in the world to just sit there or lie there or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things,… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
“Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“I’m on the train, and the doors are shutting behind me, when I smell the smoke; or rather I’m stepping into the… — William Leith Copy Share Image
“Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Proust so titillates my own desire for expression that I can hardly set out the sentence. Oh if I could write like… — Virginia Woolf 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
“Recalling, some time later, what I had felt at the time, I distinguished the impression of having been held for a moment… — marcel proust Copy Share Image
It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
“In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
