Engineering Quote by Paul Ricoeur

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom

— W. G. Sebald

Out of limitations, new forms emerge

— Georges Braque

I am terribly interested in the paragraph: the paragraph as an object, the construction, and the possibilities of what a paragraph can do.

— Hisham Matar

The Text is not a definitive object.

— Roland Barthes

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according…

— Juan Goytisolo

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

— Johann Johannsson

“All writing, all composition, is construction. we do not imitate the world, we construct versions of it. there is no mimesis, only poesis. no…

— Robert Scholes

The form is the possibility of the structure.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents; every new…

— Samuel Johnson

“That's how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make…

— Richard Mitchell

A lot of my work is about text taken to the point of abstraction.

— Glenn Ligon

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.

— Werner Heisenberg