“It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts. There must be delirious pride in the feeling that you are bringing the full weight of your ideas to bear on mankind. But for that you must have something to say.”
— Flaubert, in his November 3, 1851 letter to Louise Colet.1
Footnotes
- Gustave, Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (ed.). The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830–1857. Cambridge: Belknap Press (Harvard University Press), 1980. p. 152. [↩]
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