Literature Quotes

"The text survives its original context and speaks to new times because it contains meanings beyond its author's awareness."

"The meaning of a text is not fixed at the moment of its creation but continues to unfold through subsequent interpretations."

"Minor literature is not the literature of a minor people, but a minor use of the dominant language."

"Writing should produce flow; reading should produce flow."

"Writing is the possibility of doing without the voice."

"Every text is at war with itself."

"Writing precedes speech."

"Writing is a kind of death."

"The text has no final meaning."

"Writing marks difference."

"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric, yet silence is complicity."

"I am surprised how people accept the most extraordinary truths if they come in the form of a novel."

"Every encounter with a text is a fusion of horizons between past and present."

"Every text speaks to a future audience in ways the author could not have anticipated."

"The meaning of a text extends beyond the author's original intention."

"Every text contains a question directed toward us as readers."

"To read a text is to enter into a dialogue with those who came before us."

"The meaning of a work never remains the same but is continuously renewed."

"The classical persists because it continually speaks to new generations in new ways."

"The distance between interpreter and text is not a problem but a productive condition."

"The meaning we bring to a text and the meaning it brings to us are inseparable."

"Writing is what inscribes the real."

"One cannot write what has not been spoken."

"Minor literature does not come from a minor language but from within a major language itself."

"We are not asking for an explanation of a work of literature so much as an experience of it."

"The author is dead; what survives is the multiplicity of interpretations."

"Writing is the necessity of infinite interpretation."

"To read is to be responsible to the text's singularity."

"The text multiplies meaning rather than reducing it."

"Writing is the supplement that becomes primary."