Fanatic Quote by Guillermo Arango

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

— Sonia Rykiel

That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of…

— Truman Capote

My life reads more like Proust than a tabloid.

— Stellan Skarsgard

You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was…

— Paulo Coelho

“My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed.”

— Jack Kerouac

“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

“Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected…

— Susan Cain

“She couldn't demand that Mrs. Proust get off the bed; it wasn't her bed. It wasn't her castle. She smiled. In fact it really…

— Terry Pratchett

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

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