"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment……" — Anatole Broyard
"To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding."
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35 Quotes by Anatole Broyard
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we…
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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read…
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Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.
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Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find:…
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We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
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People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later…
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Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.
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The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.
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I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of…
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
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A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or…
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The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances,…
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