I Will Write to Avenge My People Quotes

“By granting me the highest literary distinction that can be, a bright light is being shone on work that consists of writing and personal research carried out in solitude and doubt.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture

“As for the burden of saving the planet, destroyed largely by the limitless appetite of the great economic powers, it cannot fall, as is already to be feared, on those who are already destitute. At such moments in history, silence is not an option.”
― Annie Ernaux, I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture