Assia Djebar Quotes & Sayings

Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins. — Assia Djebar

Since they weren't sleepy and nothing had been left unsaid, they began to read poetry to each other, taking turns like children and enjoying it. Bachir had a lovely voice, one that was already that of a man. He knew many poems by heart. He lovingly recited Victor Hugo, with warmth Rimbaud's Le bateau ivre, and poems written by young people going into battle; he then moved on to the poets of liberty - Rimbaud again, Eluard, and Desnos. — Assia Djebar

Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure. — Assia Djebar

small things comes in big packages.* — Assia Djebar