Anatole Broyard (July 16, 1920 – October 11, 1990) was an American literary critic for the New York Times. He is notable for denying his African ancestry by passing as white.
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A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall.
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
It 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.
An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.