Quote of the Day

“From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things…. What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the inner force of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air.”

—Gustave Flaubert, quoted in Ben Yagoda’s The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing.