Maurice Blanchot Quotes

To choose to write is to reject silence.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours.

Writing is the painting of the voice.

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

Don't talk about it; write.

The best writing is certainly when you are in love

A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.

I write in order to belong.

When I write characters, I need to hear their voice. As soon as I get them speaking, and I feel how they use language, I understand who they are and what they want.

Hold your pen and spare your voice.

I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

I cross out words so you will see them more

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

There are indeed ways for a queen to say what she thinks.

If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound.

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop.

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.