ON THE BOOKS Mallarmé = the world is made to lead to a beautiful book. Vedrès = A forces to like a book, one ends up thinking that he loves you. Dumas = In general, I begin a book only when he is written. Boileau = a book displeases to you: who forces you to read it? Gide = Nathanaël, throws my book. Terentianus = the books have their destiny. Jouhandeau = Tout good book is an attack. Can Carroll, Lewis = A what serve a book without images nor dialogues? wondered Alice. Aragon, Louis = When it is a really large book, the history of the men comes there to add his own passion. Chamfort = the majority of the books of now seem to be made in one day, with books read of the day before. Rostand, J = I ask a book to create in me the need for what it brings to me. Proust, M = a book is a large cemetery where on the majority of the tombs one cannot read the unobtrusive names any more Wilde, O = the books which the world calls immoral are those which show him its clean ignominie. *** = He dies rightly in dishonour that which does not like the books and does not have confidence in them. Lemaître, J = criticism is only art to enjoy the books. The Heather = It is a trade to make a book, like making a clock. Balzac = It is as easy to dream a book as it is difficult to do it. Lamb, Charles = the books think for me. Proust = These are the passions which outline our books, the rest of interval which writes them. Proust = truths books must be the children not great day, but of the darkness and silence. of Goncourt = the books which one sells more are the books which one reads less. Mrs. de Staël = the evil that can make the bad books is corrected only by the goods; Jarry, Alfred = the book is a large emerged tree of the tombs. Vigny = a book is a bottle thrown on the open sea on which it is necessary to stick this étiquette:attrape which can Valéry P = the books have the same enemies as the man: fire... animals, time; and their own contents
ON THE WRITING Clézio, JMG = the writing is the only perfect form of time. Clézio, JMG = the words are not enough numerous to run as quickly as the war. Pline the Old one = Not a day without a line. Boileau-Despréaux = Before thus to write, learn how to think. Léautaud, P. = I do not write well that if I write with the devil. Mauriac, F = To write, it is to remember. But to read, it is also to remember. Buffon = Those which write as they speak, though they speak very well, write badly. Attic, J = One does not write freely as long as one thinks of those which will read you. Buffon = I learn how tous.les.jours to write. Léautaud Paul = For a writer, each page which he writes must be for him a new lesson in art to write Picon, G = To write not being nothing different but having time to say: I die. Joubert, J = For writing well, one needs a natural facility and an acquired difficulty. Joubert = When one writes with facility, one always believes to have more talent than one does not have any. Beauvoir, S. = Ecrire is a trade... which is learned while writing.
ON THE LITERATURE Pound = the great literature is simply language in charge of direction to the highest possible degree. Balzac = the true arts person could not be the truth of nature. Breton = Say you although the literature is one of the saddest paths which lead to all. Sainte-Beuve = probity is still what there is of rarer in the Letters. Gide = It is with the beautiful feelings that bad literature is made. Philippe C = All the crises morals of the literature are the crises morals of the middle-class. Arland, Mr. = I do not conceive literature without ethics. Wilde O = the difference between literature and journalism: journalism is illegible and the literature is not read
ON THE READING Blanchot = the reading is a happiness which requires more innocence and of freedom that of consideration. Rostand, J = I ask a book to create in me the need for what it brings to me. Confucius = To hear or read without reflecting is a vain occupation; to reflect without book nor Master is dangerous Larbaud, V = This vice unpunished, reading Baudelaire = Hypocritical reader, - my similar, - my brother! Barrès, Mr. = Any book has as a collaborator his reader. Léautaud = One has sometimes a dislike to write while thinking of the quantity of asses by which one is likely to be read Delacroix, E = the book of a great man is a compromise between the reader and him.
ON THE POETRY The purpose of Lautréamont = poetry must be the practical truth. Macaulay = As advances civilization, poetry, almost necessarily, declines. Battle, George = the glare of poetry appears out of the moments that it reaches in a disorder of death. From Bartas = Any art is learned by art, only poetry is a pure celestial gift. Aragon = Poetry ô danger of the words to the drift. Cocteau Jean = the poet remembers the future.
