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Anatole Broyard quotes: Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

Anatole Broyard quotes: We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

Anatole Broyard quotes: Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

Anatole Broyard 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.

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.

Anatole Broyard quotes: I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

Anatole Broyard quotes: Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

Anatole Broyard quotes: Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

Sometimes it seems that we might have been happier if we had once had an aristocracy to blame everything on.

Anatole Broyard quotes: When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

When we were in bed, the only part of me she touched was my penis, because it was the most detached.

Anatole Broyard quotes: Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Anatole Broyard 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.

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.

Anatole Broyard quotes: The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Anatole Broyard quotes: Chic is a convent for unloved women.

Chic is a convent for unloved women.

Anatole Broyard quotes: I'm filled with desire - to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.

I'm filled with desire - to live, to write, to do everything. Desire itself is a kind of immortality.

Anatole Broyard quotes: I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Anatole Broyard quotes: Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Anatole Broyard quotes: An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

Anatole Broyard quotes: A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Anatole Broyard quotes: When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

Anatole Broyard quotes: People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

People have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.

Anatole Broyard quotes: The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Anatole Broyard quotes: A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books -

A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns and sunsets in books - storms and zephyrs.

Anatole Broyard quotes: Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

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

Anatole Broyard quotes: There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Anatole Broyard 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.

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.