Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire

The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence.

Decline of the letter, the rise of the notebook! One doesn't write to others any more; one writes to oneself.

Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

Most writers I know have switched to word processors. I haven't but I'm very curious about why people like it so much. I think it has something to do with the fact that at last writing, which has been such an old-fashioned, artisanal activity, even on a typewriter, has now entered the central domain of modern experience which is that of making copies, being involved in the world of duplicates and machine-mediated activities.

A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.