People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.
Anatole BroyardThere was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Anatole BroyardIt is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
Anatole BroyardRuefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety.
Anatole Broyard