Anatole Broyard Quotes

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one. - Anatole Broyard

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

She was a spendthrift of the spirit, an American in Paris when, as Evelyn Waugh said, the going was good. - Anatole Broyard

Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. - Anatole Broyard

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

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

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

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

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times. - Anatole Broyard

His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer. - Anatole Broyard

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