Quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert spent five years on Madame Bovary, sometimes a page a week, hunting the exact word, and was then prosecuted for offending public morals — and acquitted, which made the book famous. He wrote from a study on the Seine, kept up a remarkable correspondence, and despised the bourgeoisie he portrayed so precisely. His remarks on style and on the labour of writing are quoted by novelists more than by readers.