Barthes Quotes

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are.

If Barthes, along with Bachelard, is one of those who have done most to enrich criticism during the last thirty years, it is not as a theoretician of a still hazy semiology, but as the champion of a new pleasure in reading.

Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.