Quotes About Author

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

Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

The whole point of a spectacular tag is not the artwork; it's the mystery of how it was done.

He made me write my research notes on three-by-five cards. On each card was a scene, a character note, or a detail from my research.

Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

His secretary, who acted as interpreter, was to say, later, that this glance of hatred was the first sign he had given of returning health.

She was too ignorant, uneducated, in that kind of physically sophisticated, lovely-assed Texan way. An American primitive.

Boldel de saclé nom de Dieu ! dit alors en bâillant le bébé sur le plancher. Boldel de saclé nom de Dieu, quelle famille ! Vous avez pas un journal ou quelque chose ? On s'emmelde ici !

Humor is a passive form of terrorism, of resistance, and of pseudo-aggression that has less to do with changing the world than with mental hygiene. It is self-therapy...

Man cultivates the vices which are profitable to him, but feels the necessity of legitimizing them; being unwilling to sacrifice them, he must idealize them.

Hey this is Lenore! Yup, it sure is Lenore! Huh, maybe he can't hear me, maybe I should spell it. L-e-n-o-p There's no p in Lenore , Lenore. Oh yeah? Then what's this raggamuffin? Pssssssssssss Aaaaagh! How are you even projecting it at that angle!?!

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.

A writer needs to ingest love to be passionate. Passion is a metabolite of love, and good writing is an active metabolite of passion.

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.

Periodization based on religion as the sole criterion of historical activity is a negation of history.

The secular critique of communalism is not an opposition to religion but to the abuse of religion.

Religious nationalism, or communalism as some prefer to call it, both Muslim and Hindu, was marginal to the anti-colonial movement.

Historiography therefore becomes a prelude to understanding history as a form of knowledge.

State intervention to try and control incidents of widow immolation begins during the time of the Sultans and the Mughals.

What is of interest in the history of the term Hindu, is that its origin lies in its being a geographical name.

Religious violence is not alien to Hinduism despite the modern myth that the Hindus are by instinct and religion a non-violent people.