Ambitious Quote by Horace Walpole

I do think they [French] view my writing itself as exotic - though that's probably not the best term for it - to a…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“(Note: Extreme sensibility of the French sometimes makes them difficult to deal with.)”

— E.M. Delafield

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois

— Voltaire

“There is an admirable fact about the psychology of France: she knows no half measures, loathsome or sublime, she forges the thought and the…

— Josephin Peladan

We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now…

— Camille Paglia

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

— Anonymous

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in…

— Jim Harrison

“I struggle each day not to let the fear of the censor poison my writing. Where the censor rules, a dull sameness creeps into…

— Harry Mazer

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic…

— Gertrude Stein

I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.

— Amitava Kumar

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

— Jane Gardam