Gustave Flaubert
French novelist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, Madame Bovary, 1857
Posted on September 13, 1999 at 9:09 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It's splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.
—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, letter, 1851
Posted on July 30, 2000 at 11:09 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, letter, 1851
Posted on April 26, 1999 at 6:53 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
—Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, Les Oeuvres, 1857
Posted on August 12, 1999 at 7:33 PM
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