For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure. — Assia Djebar Copy Share Image
“But as nothing, Western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to Westernise amounted mostly to the erasure of… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I can't think of any better tribute to the Dozier School Boys than for their story, which is about their literal visceral… — RaMell Ross Copy Share Image
“Writing is not destined to leave traces, but to erase, by traces, all traces, to disappear in the fragmentary space of writing… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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,… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
When I have my students do erasures, I'm always amazed by the way their voice comes through, whether they're doing an erasure… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I grew up as a step-kid, always a little outside, always trying hard to follow and fit in. But over time, I've… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
Memory is this one attempt to not be erased by time. And I think that ties back to what I learned watching… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“When you’re persistently deleted from history, media, and any other channel to access information – or that information is distorted – it’s… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
“In all of our lives, there are days that we wish we could see expunged from the record of our very existence.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“At the kitchen table she examined the glass of ice. Each cube was rounded by room temperature, dissolving in its own remains,… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“There were many deficits in our swamp education, but Grandpa Sawtooth, to his credit, taught us the names of whole townships that… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
As soon as people hear my voice and synthesizer together they hear Erasure. — Andy Bell Copy Share Image
“One only has to read interviews with outstanding women to hear them apologizing” — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Almost as soon as I started reading 'Erasure,' I wanted to adapt it. — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Doomsday, when it came, wouldn't be a physical phenomenon; it would be an all-inclusive erasure of simulectronic circuits.” — Daniel F. Galouye Copy Share Image
I thought about all those people whose suffering had been erased, and I thought, 'Why can't they speak? Why can't I undo… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does,… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full,… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“In the meantime, a massive and frightening bleakness inside me kept expanding and rattling. Sometimes I wrote about it in my diary,… — Ava Homa Copy Share Image
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
