Anatole Broyard Quotes

To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Anatole Broyard

Peace, Writer, Greater

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.
Anatole Broyard

Time, Children, Nothing

The tension between 'yes' and 'no', between 'I can' and 'I cannot', makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
Anatole Broyard

Life, Human, Self

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

Service, City, Rome

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

Bad, Teeth, Stick

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

Poetry, Words, Logical

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

Work, Job, Hard

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

Book, Makes, Read

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

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

War, History, Win

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

Friends, Whole, Stop

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
Anatole Broyard

Love, Wait, American

The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
Anatole Broyard

End, Human, Find

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: July 19, 1920

Died: October 11, 1990

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