Quotes by Proust, Marcel

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All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to >>

Good writing is clear thinking made visible. >>

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. >>

I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.

Proust, Marcel