Flaubert Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf. — Andrea Bocelli
I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with… — Mary Oliver
When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that… — Alain Resnais
In Madame Bovary Flaubert never allows anything to go on too long; he can suggest years of boredom in a paragraph, capture the essence of… — Michael Dirda
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce,… — George Orwell
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could… — Manuel Puig
Flaubert had infinite correction to perform. — Roland Barthes
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. — Dorothy Parker
I've been working hard on [Ulysses] all day," said Joyce. Does that mean that you have written a great deal?" I said. Two sentences," said… — James Joyce
[Flaubert] didnâ€™t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of… — Julian Barnes
Flaubert was right when he said that our use of language is like a cracked kettle on which we bang out tunes for bears to… — Christopher Hitchens

Who Wrote These Flaubert Quotes

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