Believe Quote by Theodor Adorno

It is Proust's implacable honesty, his reluctance to cut corners or to articulate what might have been good enough or credible enough in any…

— Andre Aciman

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

— Bruce Chatwin

“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale of the…

— Leon Trotsky

“... '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

“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

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a…

— William Hazlitt

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

— Susan Cain

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

“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

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him…

— Iain Pears

“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization. The words…

— Nicholas Carr

“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