Marcel Proust
French novelist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
—Marcel Proust, French novelist
Posted on March 17, 2000 at 4:09 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
—Marcel Proust, French novelist, Remembrance of Things Past
Posted on February 23, 2001 at 10:06 AM
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