When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Women must find their own answer. That’s the important thing. I’m no longer interested in books about women written by men. Even… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Years after the war, after marriages, children, divorces, books, he came to Paris with his wife. He phoned her. It's me. She… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, umbrellas, coats and satchels. And don't… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence,… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least.… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“─ No le conozco a usted. Nadie puede conocerle, ponerse en su lugar, usted no tiene lugar, no sabe dónde encontrar un lugar. Por… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
