Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing bu... - Gustave Flaubert

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"

"Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live."

"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."

"When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women"

"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."