Quotes by Anatole Broyard

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back...

#Anatole Broyard

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives...

#Anatole Broyard

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized...

#America And Americans, #Anxiety, #Sorrow

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

#Cities

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's...

#Divorce

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

#America And Americans, #Literature

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is...

#Writers

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking...

#Writers

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The...

#Writers

His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the...

#Reading

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back...

#Reading