Books Quote by Roland Barthes

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

— Roland Barthes

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal

“In the end, all that a writer has to pass on is not myth and anecdote, but scene and character, evoked in memorable prose. ”

— Will Blythe

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“She has to be written out of history and written into myth.”

— Hal Duncan

“The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost; a…

— Roland Barthes

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Writing keeps death at bay. Every book I write is a triumph over death. ... If we did not know we’d die, we’d wander…

— Ray Bradbury

“It’s important to understand that a writer’s love for creation is only surpassed by their love of having the ability to dramatically affect the…

— Danielle Rose

“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers…

— Alexandre Dumas

“If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death. But that will come in time...Not today.”

— George Pelecanos

“...perhaps the sweetest moment in writing is the arrival of that idea for a book which never has to be written, which is never…

— Julian Barnes