Books Quote by Leon Trotsky

“Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader “that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”

— Susan Cain

“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

“Reading Proust nearly silenced Virginia Woolf. She loved his novel, but loved it rather too much. There wasn’t enough wrong with it—a crushing recognition…

— Alain de Botton

“The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes…

— Anne Fadiman

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

— Bruce Chatwin

“... 'You can't read everything. I've never got beyond the beginning of Proust. I love him, but I can't seem to get beyond about…

— Alexander McCall Smith

The dominant question for us with regard to literature has become, 'What does this have to do with me, with life as I know…

— Elif Batuman

One measures oncoming old age by its deepening of Proust, and its deepening by Proust. How to read a novel? Lovingly, if it shows…

— Harold Bloom

“I read a lot of Agatha Christie's that fall of 1938 - maybe all of them. The Hercule Poirots, the Miss Marples. Death on…

— Amor Towles

“Kilmartin wrote a highly amusing and illuminating account of his experience as a Proust revisionist, which appeared in the first issue of Ben Sonnenberg's…

— Christopher Hitchens

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur”

— Jane Austen