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The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

The author enters into his own death, writing begins.

Roland Barthes
Writing
Roland Barthes, Richard Howard (1989). “Bruissement de la Langue”, p.49, Univ of California Press

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

Roland Barthes
Writing, Speak

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Roland Barthes
Love, Writing, Hysteria
Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself).

Roland Barthes
Writing, Desire, Language

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never cause me to be loved by the one I love (the other), to know that writing compensates for nothing, sublimates nothing, that it is precisely there where you are not--this is the beginning of writing.

Roland Barthes
Writing, Doe, Causes
Roland Barthes (1990). “A lover's discourse: fragments”, Penguin Books

We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.

Roland Barthes
Writing, Voice, Destruction
"Bruissement de la Langue".

The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing.

Roland Barthes
Writing, Practice, Space
"From Work to Text". Book by Roland Barthes. Conclusion, 1971.

Thus every writer's motto reads: mad I cannot be, sane I do not deign to be, neurotic I am.

Roland Barthes
Writing, Mad, Motto

Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?

Roland Barthes
Writing, Years, Body
Roland Barthes (2013). “The Language of Fashion”, p.146, A&C Black

Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another just for the pleasure of it. I try out new ones. I have far too many pens - I don't know what to do with all of them! And yet, as soon as I see a new one, I start craving it. I cannot keep myself from buying them.

Roland Barthes
Writing, Trying, Gestures

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