Amy Beggin Quotes
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The writer`s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.
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The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear - and even, in certain respects, would be - the most modern of critical movements.
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The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
