Author: Gustave Flaubert

Cited by

• Julian Barnes (1)
  • IN: Flaubert's Parrot (1984) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: When you write the biography of a friend, you must do it as if you were taking revenge for him.
    FROM: Letter to Ernest Feydeau, (1872), Letter, France
• Jackie Kay (1)
  • IN: Reality, Reality (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We writers may think we invent too much -- but reality is worse every time.
    FROM: The Funeral, (None), Short Story, France
• Christine Chia (1)
  • IN: The Law of Second Marriages (2014) Poetry, Singaporean
    EPIGRAPH: Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Lydia Syson (1)
  • IN: Liberty's Fire (2015) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Macadam [tarmac]: Has put an end to revolutions; barricades no longer possible. Nonetheless very inconvenient. Ruins: Something to make you dream. Add poetry to a landscape.
    FROM: Dictionary of Accepted Ideas (from Flaubert's notes), (1875), Book, France
• Brad Watson (2)
  • IN: Miss Jane (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She’d had, like anyone else, her love story.
    FROM: A Simple Heart, (1877), Short story, France
• Michel Tournier (1)
  • IN: The Ogre (1970) Fiction, French
    EPIGRAPH: To find something interesting, you merely have to look at it long enough.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Sally Beauman (1)
  • IN: The Visitors (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Here we are in Egypt, land of the Pharaohs, land of the Ptolemies, country of Cleopatra (as one says in high style)... What to say? What would you like me to write? I have hardly got over the first bedazzlement. It is like being thrown, fast asleep, into the middle of a Beethoven symphony...
    FROM: Letter to Dr Jules Cloquet, (1850), Letter, France
• Douglas Corleone (2)
  • IN: Good as One (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I think constantly of those who are gone; as my body continues on its journey, my thoughts keep coming back to bury themselves in days past.
    FROM: NULL, (1849), NULL, France
  • IN: Good As Gone (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I think constantly of those who are gone; as my body continues on its journey, my thoughts keep coming back to bury themselves in days past.
    FROM: NULL, (1849), NULL, France
• Geoff Dyer (1)
  • IN: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Endless explanations of irrelevancies, and none whatever of things indispensable to the subject.
    FROM: Letter to Madame Roger Des Genettes, (1862), Letter, France
• Connie Willis (1)
  • IN: To Say Nothing of the Dog (1997) Science Fiction, Comedy, American
    EPIGRAPH: God is in the details.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], France
• Enid Shomer (2)
  • IN: The Twelve Rooms of the Nile (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The future is the worst thing about the present. The question "What are you going to do?," when it is cast in your face, is like an abyss in front of you that keeps moving ahead with each step you take.
    FROM: Letter to Ernest Chevalier, (1839), Letter, France
  • IN: Tourist Season (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ... what is it good for, I ask in all truth, a book that gives no recipe for mutton or for getting rid of fleas, ... but which talks about a madman, by which I mean the world, that great idiot that has been rotating for so many centuries in space without moving forward a single step, and that howls and slobbers and tears itself apart.
    FROM: Memoirs of a Madman, (1838), Book, France
• Molly Ringwald (1)
  • IN: When It Happens To You (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idosl; the gilt comes off in our hands.
    FROM: Madame Bovary, (1857), Novel, France
• Laurell Hamilton (1)
  • IN: Bullet (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One musn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
    FROM: NULL, (None), [NA], France
• Amy Poeppel (1)
  • IN: Small Admissions (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.
    FROM: Madame Bovary, (1857), Novel, France
• Robert Harris (1)
  • IN: Dictator (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that “black hole” was infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish against a background of immutable ebony. No crying out, no convulsions – nothing but the fixity of a pensive gaze. Just when the gods had ceased to be and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur.’
    FROM: Gustave Flaubert, letter to Mme Roger des Genettes, 1861, (1861), Letter, France
• Bohumil Hrabal (1)
  • IN: The Little Town Where Time Stood Still (1976) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: La Bovary, c'est moi
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• T. C. Boyle (1)
  • IN: After the Plague (2001) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat our tunes to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
    FROM: Madame Bovary, (1856), Novel, France
• Sarah Pinborough (1)
  • IN: The Chosen Seed (2013) Thriller, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘There is no truth. There is only perception’
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France
• Richard Skinner (1)
  • IN: The Red Dancer (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.
    FROM: Madame Bovary, (1856), Novel, France
• Ian Rankin (1)
  • IN: The Flood (1986) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All one's inventions are true.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, France