Quotes by Blanchot, Maurice

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

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret >>

There is between sleep and us something like a pact, a treaty with no >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. >>

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. >>

A book should be luminous not voluminous. >>

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

Blanchot, Maurice