Anatole Broyard Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

  Anatole Broyard

  Writing, Want

• Sex almost always disappoints me in novels. Everything can be said or done now, and that's what I often find: everything, a feeling of generality or dispersal. But in my experience, true sex is so particular, so peculiar to the person who yearns for it. Only he or she, and no one else, would desire so very much that very person under those circumstances. In fiction, I miss that sense of terrific specificity.

  Anatole Broyard

  Sex, Writing, Missing

• 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

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

• In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.

  Anatole Broyard

  Writing, Play, People

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