Art Quote by Francine Pascal

“Well, I'm not defining good and bad art, except, that art that appeals to me or repels me is good. Art that bores me…

— Lucien Carr

“Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad...How right you are, it's so tedious,…

— Marcel Proust

“Memoirs lie, but fiction tells the truth.”

— Philip Roth

“I know no greater bore than the man who insists on lending you a book which you do not intend to read.”

— Harold Rabinowitz

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

— Elena Ferrante

I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

— Claire Messud

Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

— Ilona Andrews

“Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Who needed facts when fiction was so much more titillating?”

— Dee Tenorio

“Biography is the falsest of the arts.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And when I think there are people around me who complain they can't find anything good to read. What nonsense ... every month you…

— Laurence Cossé

“If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and…

— David Denby