Born on this day – Gustave Flaubert:

Gustave Flaubert

Writer

December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880

Credits:

November (1842); Madame Bovary (1856); Salammbo (1862); A Sentimental Education (1869); The Candidate (1874); The Temptation of Saint Antony (1874); Bouvard and Pacuchet (1881); Three Tales (1872); Golden Tales from Flaubert (1977); Early Writings (1991); Best Known Works of Gustave Flaubert (2004); A Simple Soul (1877); Bibliomania (1954); A Simple Heart (1995); Herodias (1877).

Gustave Flaubert, on writing:

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

- Gustave Flaubert.

Gustave Flaubert, on writing:

It's a delicious thing to write.

To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

- Gustave Flaubert.