Gustave Flaubert Archives » Bookology Magazine https://www.bookologymagazine.com/tag/gustave-flaubert Children's Literature Tue, 23 Jun 2015 02:46:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69996714 Virginia Euwer Wolff: Considering Flaubert https://www.bookologymagazine.com/knock-knock/considering-flaubert https://www.bookologymagazine.com/knock-knock/considering-flaubert#respond Tue, 23 Jun 2015 12:00:32 +0000 https://www.bookologymagazine.com/?post_type=article&p=5124 by Virginia Euwer Wolff
For years I’ve taken primitive comfort in Gustave Flaubert’s mid-nineteenth century remark in a letter to a friend: “Last week I spent five days writing one page.”
And Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac reminded us (Dec. 12, 2014) that Flaubert often put in a comma one day and took it out the next.… more

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