Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.


Paris Review (Spring, 1984)

Elie Wiesel Quotes

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you...

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you...

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you...

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you...