Cette citation est attribuée à l'écrivain français Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, bien que sa source exacte (livre ou essai spécifique) ne soit pas clairement identifiée dans les références courantes.
"One writes first because others before you have written, then because one has already begun to write: it is for the first one who thought of this exercise that the question would really arise: which amounts to saying that it fundamentally has no meaning."