I have just spend a good week, alone like a hermit. I abandoned myself to a frenzy of literature; I got up at midday, I went to bed at four in the morning. I smoked fifteen pipes in a day; I have written eight pages.
Gustave Flaubert in Writer's On Writing, edited by Walter Allen, 1948. The French novelist (1821-1880) is known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary 1857.
Gustave Flaubert in Writer's On Writing, edited by Walter Allen, 1948. The French novelist (1821-1880) is known for his masterpiece, Madame Bovary 1857.
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