Quotes by Blanchot, Maurice

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- >>

A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. I >>

Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display t >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I lik >>

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing. >>

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. >>

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.

Blanchot, Maurice