Credible Quote by Andre Aciman

It is Proust's courtesy to spare the reader the embarrassment of believing himself cleverer than the author.

— Theodor Adorno

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

— Bruce Chatwin

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even…

— Tyler Cowen

“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a crushing recognition…

— Alain de Botton

“Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader “that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”

— Susan Cain

Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing…

— Edward St Aubyn

“That distinctive singular stamp of himself is one of the main reasons readers come to love an author. The way you can just tell,…

— David Foster Wallace

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

— Italo Svevo

He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to…

— Alain de Botton

“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding that which…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula…

— Northrop Frye