As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together…

“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains, and belatedly…

— Anthony Marra

“When you’re persistently deleted from history, media, and any other channel to access information – or that information is distorted – it’s far worse…

— M.B. Dallocchio

“Writing is not destined to leave traces, but to erase, by traces, all traces, to disappear in the fragmentary space of writing more definitely…

— Maurice Blanchot

Was their love worth the erasure of the world and all its stories?

— Lauren Kate

Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching my grandmother…

— Anthony Doerr

When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure of a…

— Matthea Harvey

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.

— Assia Djebar

I grew up as a step-kid, always a little outside, always trying hard to follow and fit in. But over time, I've come to…

— Jennifer Egan

The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a…

— Julie Mehretu

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

— Natasha Trethewey

That's what I mean by this sense of erasure. You're inside some event or spectacle and you know you're complicit in it, but there…

— Sarah Morris

I can't think of any better tribute to the Dozier School Boys than for their story, which is about their literal visceral erasure, to…

— RaMell Ross

“In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence. Perhaps we…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Doomsday, when it came, wouldn't be a physical phenomenon; it would be an all-inclusive erasure of simulectronic circuits.”

— Daniel F. Galouye

“Anything can be lost if you try hard enough.”

— Daisy Johnson