Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought! — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don’t… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“He leaned against the writing desk and stayed there till nightfall, lost in sorrowful thoughts. After all, she had loved him.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“One ought to know everything, to write. All of us scribblers are monstrously ignorant. If only we weren’t lacking in stamina, what… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I’m dazzled by your facility. In ten days you’ll have written six stories! I don’t understand it… I’m like one of those… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It would have been better to do what everyone else does, neither taking life too seriously nor seeing it as merely grotesque,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Amongst those who go to sea there are the navigators who discover new worlds, adding continents to the earth and stars to… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It is a delightful thing to write, to cease to be oneself, to flow through the whole creation of which one speaks.… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“It is a delicious thing to write, whether well or badly - to be no longer yourself but to move in an… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
