Flaubert Quotes - I've Never Had a Pin Board

Flaubert wrote, ordinare ordinary, normal, humdrum. He believed that the publisher's job was simply to pay and to print. A condition of his sale of salombeu was that his publisher, michel levy, would not read the manuscript beforehand. In exceptional circumstances, if the book did extraordinarily well, the publisher might give you another chunk of money out of the goodness of his heart. On newspaper interviews, giving the public details about oneself is bourgeois temptation. I have always resisted on auto fiction.