You don’t make art out of good intentions. - Gustave Flaubert

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."

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