Destruction Quote by Roland Barthes

We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite,…

— Roland Barthes

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking.

— Arnold Bennett

Writing is the painting of the voice.

— Voltaire

All writing is a process of elimination.

— Martha Albrand

Writing is the great invention of the world.

— Abraham Lincoln

Writing is the crack through which you can crawl into a bigger world, into your wild mind.

— Natalie Goldberg

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

— Mel Brooks

Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer…

— Hillary Carlip

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

— Helene Cixous

Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life…

— Jeanette Winterson

Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.

— Sigmund Freud