List of Anatole Broyard Quotes

For Years They Have Been Using The Role Of 'sex Object' As A Cover While They Spied Out The Land.

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.

Two People Making Love, She Once Said, Are Like One Drowned Person Resuscitating The Other.

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.

An Aphorism Is A Generalization Of Sorts, And Our Present-day Writers Seem More At Home With The Particular.

Sometimes It Seems That We Might Have Been Happier If We Had Once Had An Aristocracy To Blame Everything On.

Chic Is A Convent For Unloved Women.

I Feel About Lending A Book The Way Most Fathers Feel About Their Daughters Living With A Man Out Of Wedlock.

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.

A Whole Generation Of Writers Dined Out On The Dialectic Between Original Cultures And Their Culture By "progress.

The Moment A Book Is Lent I Begin To Miss It.

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.