A Writer's Ruminations

"everything is lost except words […] at a certain moment for the person who has lost everything, whatever that is, moreover, a being or a country, language becomes the country […] In the beginning the gesture of writing is linked to the experience of disappearance, to the feeling of having lost the key to the world, of having been thrown outside. Of having urgently to regain the entrance, the breath, to keep the trace."

—  Leora Skolkin-Smith, “On Helene Cixous’ So Close” (via Time Immemorial)