Marguerite Duras Quotes about Writing

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

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

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

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