The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate." - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras” — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I never isolated myself. I was a journalist at a daily newspaper and every day I went out on… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
Indeed, I still read a fair amount of French literature and I am very attracted to the emotional depth and simplicity of… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Marguerite Duras was a very good friend of mine and an intellectual hero. She was also a sort of mother figure. Of… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
“To write,” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.” — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“It is winter. Ravens are standing on a pile of bones -- black typeface on white paper picking an idea clean. It’s… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
