A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied. — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising. — Bert Greene Copy Share Image
My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust. — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture,… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
“My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Hence Proust’s assertion that the greatness of works of art has nothing to do with the apparent quality of their subject matter,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time,' especially 'Time Regained,' made me think differently about what the novel is and can do. Then… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Se o que Proust diz é verdade, que a felicidade é a ausência do delírio, então eu nunca conhecerei a felicidade. Pois… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“not required to stay late in the Whitehall area, I used, as a general routine, to come straight back from duty to… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Carried away in a sort of dream, he smiled, then he began to hurry back towards the lady; he was walking faster… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Children don’t suffer from habit, which is why they get excited by some very key but simple things like puddles, jumping on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“According to Proust, one proof that we are reading a major new writer is that his writing immediately strikes us as ugly.… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Habit enables us to cling to the familiar, to the self we think we know with a persistence almost irresistible. An anodyne… — Howard Moss Copy Share Image
“A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is… — Marcel Proust 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
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
“...the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in this, I said to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
