“A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence in a moment of distraction from the literal reading, the way you see childhood through a child. It would take forever to tell what you see, and it would be pointless.” WayChildrenTwoBookMomentsWould BeReadingExistenceForeverChildhoodDistractionLayersPointlessLiteralInaccessible Author:Marguerite Duras
“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.” ThinkingWritingDoeBookHurtWipe Author:Marguerite Duras
“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.” WritingBookIdeasSubjectsTerribleSolitudeFindingsOvercomingBottomHolesNakedEmptinessFinding YourselfDiscoveringLike Something Book:Writing Source: Writing
“I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.” ShouldTwoBookLightRoomsPagesShadowGardenBeachElectricLitElectric Light Author:Marguerite Duras
“No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.” MenGivingHumansBookRealHuman BeingsCreationPaintingIllusionAlcoholAlcoholism Book:Practicalities Source: Practicalities
