“Once the Author is gone, the claim to 'decipher' a text becomes quite useless. To give an Author to a text is to impose upon that text a stop clause, to furnish it with a final signification, to close the writing.”
More from Roland Barthes
“...He is in love: he creates meaning, always and everywhere, out of nothing...”
“Am I in love?—yes,since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play…”
“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds;…”
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead…”