Top 25 Quotes by Anatole Broyard of 37 - Page 2

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.

Book, Reading, Talking

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.

Jobs, Writing, Ideas

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

Anxiety, Fiction, Tone

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.

Art, Real, Play

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

Progress, Generations, Culture

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.

Book, Reading, Night

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

Daughter, Father, Book

Chic is a convent for unloved women.

Chic, Unloved

1988 In the NewYork Times, 10 Jan.

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

Government, Aristocracy, Might

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

Home, Aphorism, Particular

"Wisdom of Aphorisms". New York Times, April 30, 1983.

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

Two, People, Making Love

Anatole Broyard (2010). “Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir”, p.63, Vintage

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Sex, Women, Years

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