Books Quote by David Grann

You know, the more grown-up you are, the more you like Proust.

— Sonia Rykiel

How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the…

— Haruki Murakami

Nothing would have shocked Proust more than to hear that his work was perceived as difficult or inaccessibly rarefied.

— Andre Aciman

“You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!”

— Marcel Proust

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there…

— Judith Thurman

“Hence Proust’s assertion that the greatness of works of art has nothing to do with the apparent quality of their subject matter, and everything…

— Alain de Botton

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it…

— William Empson

“Proust is famous for his rhapsodies on hawthorns but his book has only three of these, whereas there are thirteen scenes in brothels, one…

— Michael Foley

“Memory, personal and historical, is often accompanied by moralistic sentiment. Nostalgia is an act of escapism and self-indulgence, but to forget the past is…

— Ezra Glinter

Proust's tea cake has nothing on one hour in a college dorm.

— Gloria Steinem

Proust is interested in minutiae because life, as he sees it, is seldom ever about things but about our impression of things, not about…

— Andre Aciman