Logo
Quote by Gustave Flaubert
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present ev

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
Happiness
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote

I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key. – Gustave Flaubert

Category:
alone
Author
Gustave Flaubert
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Writing
category

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

Category:
Writing

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman. – Van Wyck Brooks

Category:
Writing

There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. – Miguel de Cervantes

Category:
Writing

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. – Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Category:
Writing

Random Quotes

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. – Francis Schaeffer

Category:
Age

There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing. – Proverb

Category:
Gambling (Gaming)

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. – Jacques Barzun

Category:
Education

Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him. – Hal Borland

Category:
Autumn