Marguerite Duras Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

  Marguerite Duras

  Country, Writing, Men

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.66, Grove Press

• There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

  Marguerite Duras

  Writing, Men, Thinking

• When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

  Marguerite Duras

  Hurt, Book, Writing

• 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.

  Marguerite Duras

  Writing, Solitude, Drained

  Marguerite Duras (1998). “Writing”, Brookline Books

• Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

  Marguerite Duras

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Marguerite Duras (1998). “Writing”, Brookline Books

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