Balzac Quote by Gore Vidal

“(in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you have even…

— Pierre Bayard

One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio.…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him…

— Dai Sijie

“As always with the greatest works, the novel is so many-sided that over time it mirrors back the shifting concerns of those who read…

— Carl F. Hovde

“A novel is more a symphony, opera, oratorio. It exists in time, it goes by you a sound dying out as you write on,…

— Dorothy Bryant

“It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one. -Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)”

— June Ahern

“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. —Alfred A. Montapert Aleatha”

— Aleatha Romig

“Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not…

— John Kennedy Toole

The best author is a dead author, because he's out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you…

— Stella Adler

I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

— Margaret Atwood

Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under my pillow…

— Samuel West

“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.”

— Mark Rubinstein