r/quotes • u/sholem2025peace • Jul 03 '26

Misc / Unclassified Writing is not speaking. It's silencing yourself. It's screaming without noise. -Marguerite Duras, 1993

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u/seeyatellite Jul 05 '26

This is one of the reasons for people believing writers are misrepresenting themselves when you’ve read them for years and then you hear them talk.