Cette citation est attribuée à Roland Barthes, extraite de son essai 'Le Degré zéro de l'écriture' (1953), où il explore les relations entre l'écriture, le langage et la société.
"To write is to shake the meaning of the world, to place an indirect question in it, to which the writer, through a final suspense, refrains from answering. The answer is given by each of us, bringing our own history, language, and freedom."