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Madame Bovary is myself. -- Gustave Flaubert
I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties. -- Lydia Davis
I wrote the first draft of 'Madame Bovary' without studying the previous translations, although I gathered them and took the occasional peek. -- Lydia Davis
The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes. -- Kathryn Harrison
I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary. -- Sue Townsend
Madame Bovary' advanced slowly, as slowly as it would have to have, given an author who held himself accountable to each word, that it be the right word, of which there could be only one. -- Kathryn Harrison
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No. -- David Mitchell
Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up. -- Salman Rushdie
Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing. -- Noel Coward
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary. -- Joseph McCarthy
I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list? -- Sylvester Stallone
The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences. -- John Irving
Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit. -- Alberto Manguel
Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life. -- Sophie Barthes

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