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 BroyardThe more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
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 BroyardThe contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
Anatole Broyard