I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers..

Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one..

I never have anything to talk about..

What God originates, God orchestrates..

I like my work to stand on its own as much as possible..

There is beauty in everything, Just not everybody sees it.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you..

I wonder what Proust would have made of our present-day locus of collective fantasy, the Internet. I’m guessing he would have seized on its wistful a….

Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth..

In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling….

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry..

Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even the….

Continue reading Proust. His magnificent intelligence is particularly fond of describing stupidity. Which is ultimately exhausting..

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce..

A ton of Proust isn’t worth an ounce of Ray Bradbury..

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes..

The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfac….