Life Quote by Anatole Broyard

The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night…

— Anatole Broyard

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

— Anatole Broyard

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't…

— Anatole Broyard

“The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like and ancestral portrait.”

— Anatole Broyard

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

— Anatole Broyard

“When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.”

— Anatole Broyard

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

— Anatole Broyard

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art…

— Anatole Broyard

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with…

— Anatole Broyard

The tension between 'yes' and no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an…

— Anatole Broyard

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

— Anatole Broyard

To choose a writer for a friend is like palling around with your cardiologist, who might be musing as you talk to him that…

— Anatole Broyard