Adapt Quote by Cord Jefferson

The BBC came to me and they wanted to adapt the book [Three Musketeers] again, in the straightforward way, and I said no to…

— Adrian Hodges

“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

“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

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

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

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

— Natasha Trethewey

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

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

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

— Assia Djebar

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

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

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

— Lauren Kate