Quotes by Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust spent the last fifteen years of his life in a cork-lined bedroom in Paris writing In Search of Lost Time — seven volumes, more than a million words, about memory, jealousy, art and social climbing. The first volume was rejected by publishers and he paid to print it. He died before finishing the revisions. The passage about the madeleine is among the most quoted in fiction, usually by people describing something quite different from what happens in it.