Louis Begley Quotes

I'm not ashamed to admit that occasionally I've found myself aroused by my own depictions of sex.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.