Quotes by : Pierre Bayard

The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us about....

There is more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to open a book at all. For any....

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire....

Like language, books serve to express us, but also to complete us, furnishing, through a variety of excerpted....

[…] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds,....

Fictional characters exert a great deal of influence over our choices in love by representing inaccessible....

What we are able to say about our intimate relation with a book will have more force if we have not thought....

Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over....

Our relation to books is a shadowy space haunted by the ghosts of memory, and the real value of books....