Anatole Broyard Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

13 Famous Quotes by Anatole Broyard
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“Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.”
Aphorisms Quotes
“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.”
Books Quotes
“There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.”
Obedience Quotes
“The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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