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Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Gustave Flaubert quotes about writing

French Novelist, Writer December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880

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He seriously thought that there is less harm in killing a man than producing a child: in the first case you are relieving someone of life, not his whole life but a half or a quarter or a hundredth part of that existence that is going to finish, that would finish without you; but as for the second, he would say, are you not responsible to him for all the tears he will shed, from the cradle to the grave? Without you he would never have been born, and why is he born? For your amusement, not for... Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living."
Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living."
Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Write about daily life as you would write history."
Write about daily life as you would write history. Gustave Flaubert
With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only..."
You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful. Gustave Flaubert
It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes. Gustave Flaubert
When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds? like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a..."
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful."
Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all..."
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more Gustave Flaubert
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. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my..."
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert quote: "A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a..."
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. Gustave Flaubert

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