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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance. Anatole Broyard Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. Anatole Broyard Read Quote
