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Why do writers
write? Because it isn't there.
-- Thomas Berger
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.
-- Maurice Blanchot
1907-, French Literary
Theorist, Author
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.
-- Maurice Blanchot
1907-, French Literary
Theorist, Author
He who cannot
limit himself will never know how to write.
-- Nicholas Boileau
1636-1711, French Literary
Poet, Critic
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No one who
cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
-- Nicholas Boileau
1636-1711, French Literary
Poet, Critic
Every writer
''creates'' his own precursors. His work modifies our
conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
-- Jorge Luis Borges
1899-1986, Argentinean Author
Like all
writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they
had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by
what he envisaged or planned.
-- Jorge Luis Borges
1899-1986, Argentinean Author
A book should
be luminous not voluminous.
-- Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author,
Lawyer
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