“In short, there are two realisms: the first deciphers the “real” (what is demonstrated but not seen); the second speaks “reality” (what is seen but not demonstrated): fiction, which can mix these two realisms, adds to the intelligible of the “real” the hallucinatory tail of “reality”…the onset of historical intelligibility and the persistence of the thing in being there.”

-Roland Barthes, The Pleasures of the Text-

“the author that I am can say:  I am not me.  That is all.”

-Helene Cixous-

“We are a sign without interpretation”

-Martin Heidegger-

“the irresistible compulsion to seek the tiny spark of accident – the here and now”

-Walter Benjamin-

“we always envision as we see…because all of us fictionalize our lives and the lives of others who have a part in our story…the frame excludes more than it includes…”

-Mary Price-

“I consider fiction the main reality-making art”

-Ronald Sukenick-

“the suffering of being: that is, the free play of every faculty”

-Samuel Beckett-

“language owes its existence and identity to what it can never be, to what it can only point at…the sound of language is the very embodiment of desire”

-Simon van Booy-