Although Quote by Lydia Davis

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

— David Mitchell

“The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will…

— John Irving

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

— Lydia Davis

“You should wait, William," Miss Frost said. "The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you…

— John Irving

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was…

— Sylvester Stallone

“The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the novelist has…

— David Lodge

I have a boundless passion for Flaubert. It's unthinkable to me that someone might not have read 'Madame Bovary.' He writes with a scalpel.…

— Brigitte Macron

Many of the books I read, I had to read them in French, English, or Italian, because they hadn't been translated into Spanish.

— Antonio Munoz Molina

Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is…

— Sophie Barthes

“I suppose you mean Camilla?" "Yes, that's the book; such unnatural stuff! An old man playing at see-saw, I took up the first volume…

— Jane Austen

I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

— Ann Goldstein

I am not one of those translators who think that working closely with the writer will yield the best translation.

— Adam Morris