Childhood Quote by Bruce Chatwin

The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as I know…

— Elif Batuman

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

— Theodor Adorno

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

It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any…

— Andre Aciman

“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale of the…

— Leon Trotsky

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

— Susan Cain

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting.

— Jean Cocteau

“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

“[T]he narrative intelligences of our books should leave us feeling a bit pressed intellectually, a bit outmatched, amazed ultimately by the talent of the…

— Bryan Basamanowicz

One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows…

— Harold Bloom

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

“Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.”

— Dennis R. Miller