Famous Quotes | A writer never reads his work....

A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it. - Maurice Blanchot
Attribution: Maurice Blanchot (b. 1907), French literary theorist, author. repr. In The Gaze of Orpheus, ed. P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The Essential Solitude,” The Space of Literature (1955).

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