"if i had to write a book to communicate what i have already thought, i’d never have courage to begin it. i write precisely because i don’t know yet what to think about a subject that attracts my interest…when i write i do it above all to change myself and not to think the same thing as before."
michel foucault, interview with italian journalist duccio trombadore,quoted in ann laura stoler’s race and the education of desire: foucault’s history of sexuality and the colonial order of things (via tobia)
This is EXACTLY what I try to teach my students; it’s why I write; and fucking thank you for this quote cuz I need it for interviews, it being an explanation of why my book isn’t “nonfiction” or “straight autobiography” etc blah blah
(via writingwildstyle)
(Source: derica, via free1love1tool1box)
