Marguerite Duras Quote

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write. When it loses its blood, its author stops recognizing it. And first and foremost it must be never be dictated to a secretary, however capable she may be, nor ever given to a publisher to read at that stage.


Writing (trans. 1998)


The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something...

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something...

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something...

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something...